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8.  Calumet  Island Mr.  Chas.  G.  Emery,  New  York. 

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ft    Wftvin»  RranrhoB  )  Arthur  Hnghes,  Btone  Mills',  N.  Y. 

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(  L.  8.  Ainsworth.  Watertown,  N.  Y. 
L  Prof.  A.  H.  Brown,  Carthage,  N.  Y. 


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10.  Island  Royal IJoyal  K.  Deane,  New  York. 

11.  Seven  Isles Bradley  Wlnslow,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

11.  Point  Vivian;   Resot  Tozer,   J.  J.  Kinney,  Dr.  Jones, 

Geo.  Jones,  William  Cooper,  and  others,  Stone  Mills, 

New  York. 

18.  Bella  Vista  Lodge F.  J.  Bosworth,  Newport,  R.  I. 

14.  Comfort  Island A.  B.  Clarli,  Chicago. 

16.  Warner  Island H.  H.  Warner,  Rochester,  N.Y. 

iA    rho.^.*  T«io„/i  J  A.  B.  Pallman,  Chicago. 

16.  Cherry  Island ^  G.  B.  Marsh,        '•^ 

17.  WaaWlnet C.  E.  Hill,  Chicago. 

18.  Nobby  Island H.  R.  He»th,  New  York. 

19.  Welcome  Island 8.  G.  Pope,  Ogdensbarg. 

20.  Linlithgow  Island R.  A.  Livingston,  New  York. 

21.  Bonnie  Castle Holland  Estate. 

22.  Isle  Imperial Mri .  H.  G.  Le  Conte,  Philadelphia. 

28.  Point  Marguerite &  Acthony ,  New  York. 

24. .  Sport  Isl and Packer  Estate. 

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THOUSAND  ISLANDS, 


AN    UNRIVALED    SUMMER    RESORT. 


WATERTOWN,  N.  Y.  : 

HUNCERFORD  «  COATHS,   ARCADE  STREET. 
1896. 


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THE   THOUSAND   ISLES. 


1»Y    W.    A.    <  llOKKUT. 


n/T  Y  wandering  soul  is  satisfied; 
/      A.  I  rest  wliore  blooming  islands  ride 
^        At  anchor  on  the  tranquil  tide. 

The  sky  of  summer  shines  serene, 
And  sapphire  rivers  How  between 
The  thousand  bosl<y  shields  of  green. 

I  know  the  tale  the  red  men  sung — 
How,  when  this  Northern  land  was  young 
And  l)y  a  smiling  heaven  o'erhung, 

Its  beauty  stirred  the  Archfiend's  ire, 
Till,  burning  with  insane  desire. 
He  smote  it  witli  a  shaft  of  fire 

And  shattered  it  to  fragments.     "See! " 

He  cried  with  diabolic  glee, 

"  riie  paradise  that  o  tcked  at  me! 

'Tis  sunk  Iteneath  the  wave!     No  trace 
Reminds  me  of  its  native  grace 
And  witchery  of  loveliness." 

But  Time  repairs  the  wreck  of  old, 

And  veils,  with  touches  manifold, 

The  shining  shards  with  green  and  gold. 

The  sad  wounds  hide  in  tender  moss, 
And  ferns  and  lichens  creep  across 
And  every  ragged  scar  emboss 

The  pine  its  coronal  uprears. 
And  banished  beauty  reappears 
'Neath  the  caresses  of  the  years. 

So,  day  by 
Among  the 
The  crown 


Tlie  fairy-land  again  has  grown; 
Tile  Huron  god  has  found  a  throne. 
And  Maniti)  reclaims  his  own. 

And  so  the  summer  shines  serene. 
And  sa|)phire  rivers  lapse  between 
The  thousand  bosky  shields  of  green. 

And  so  I  drift  in  silence  where 
Young  Echo,  from  her  granite  chair, 
Flings  music  on  the  mellow  air, 

O'er  rock  and  rush,  o'er  wave  and  brake, 
Until  her  phantom  carols  wake 
The  voices  of  the  Island  Lake. 

Heneath  my  skiil  the  long  grass  glides; 

The  muscallonge  in  covert  hides. 

And  pickerel  flash  their  gleaming  sides. 

And  purple  vines  the  naiads  wore, 
A- lip-toe  on  the  liquid  floor. 
Nod  welcome  to  my  pulsing  oar. 

The  shadow  of  the  waves  I  sec. 
Whose  silver  meshes  seem  to  be 
The  love-web  of  Penelope. 

It  shimmers  on  the  yellow  sands, 
And  while,  beneath  the  weaver's  hands 
It  creeps  abroad  in  throbbing  strando, 

The  braided  sunbeams  softly  shift, 
And  unseen  fingers,  flashing  swift, 
Unravel  all  the  golden  weft. 

day,  I  drift  and  dream 
Thousand  Isles,  that  seem 
and  glory  of  the  stream. 

— The  Continent. 


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INTRODUCTORY. 


advent  of  the  explorer,  intent 
upon  the  discovery  of  new  lands  to  add  to  his 
sovereign's  possessions  and  establish  his  name 
among  the  world's  immortals,  the  great  Indian 
nations  which  inhabited  North  America,  having 
roamed  in  many  regions  where  nature  presented  forms 
and  scenes  both  grand  and  beautiful,  found  a  mighty 
river,  bearing  the  outflow  of  the  great  inland  seas  to 
the  unknown  ocean.  The  stream  was  of  itself  an 
inspiration,  moving  onward  with  a  majesty  that  awoke 
the  finer  nature  of  the  savage  and  compelled  his  rev- 
erence. But  the  swift  canoes  of  these  first  discov- 
erers, as  they  followed  the  current's  steady  course, 
came  upon  scenes  more  entrancing  than  had  ever 
before  met  their  vision.  Group  after  group  of  green-clad  islands,  with  such  a  wide  vari- 
ation in  form  and  size  as  to  give  to  each  an  ''".dividuality  and  beauty  of  its  own,  troubled 
the  flow  of  this  great  stream  and  adorned  its  surface  like  jewels  in  a  kingly  crown. 
These  almost  countless  fragments  of  land  and  rock  and  verdure,  seemingly  anchored 
on  the  water's  surface,  the  bays  and  outjutting  points  and  ledges  of  the  mainland,  the 
vein-like  passage-ways  between  the  islands,  the  river's  pellucid  waters  lightly  caressing 
gentle  slopes  or  plunging  lazily  against  rocky  projections,  the  flash  and  sheen  as  here 
and  there  a  muscallonge  or  bass  bounded  out  of  its  native  element  in  the  joy  of  perfect 
freedom,  and  the  splash  and  ripple  as  it  returned  to  the  depths  again,  the  rush  and 
plunge,  the  startled  eyes  and  graceful  antlers  of  the  abundant  deer,  the  soft,  fragrant 
and  the  kindly  beaming  sky,  all  blended  into  a  magnificent  picture,  panoramic, 
kaleidoscopic,  and  withal  as  abiding  as  the  everlasting  hills  and  as  beautiful  as  the  starry 


6 


THE  TII0U!4AND   ISLANDS. 


firmament.  It  fulfilled  the  red  man's  ideal  of  the  happy  hunting  ground  in  far  greater 
measure  than  any  other  scene  that  his  wandering  feet  and  birchen  craft  had  ever 
brought  him  to,  and  in  his  ectasy  of  delight  and  awe  he  exclaimed  :  "  Manato-Ana" — 
the  Garden  of  the  Great  Spirit. 

Such  was  man's  first  discovery  of  the  River  St.  Lawrence  and  its  Thousand 
Islands.  Since  that  remote  day  the  white  man  has  made  pilgrimages  to  this  shrine  of 
nature,  and  employed  his  loftiest  language   in   descriptions   of    its   splendors.     The 


uttermost  parts  of  the  earth  have  since  been  traversed,  but  in  no  other  realm  or  clime 
has  there  been  found  a  spot  so  sublimely  endowed  with  nature's  gifts  as  to  despoil  the 
Thousand  Island  region  of  the  highest  title  known  to  the  imaginative  Indian  tongue. 

To-day  every  nation  is  represented  by  hundreds  and  thousands  of  its  most  cultured 
and  appreciative  people,  as  year  by  year  they  gather  here,  paying  the  highest  tribute  of 
admiration  and  praise,  while  finding  amid  these  scenes  measureless  and  unending 
attraction  for  the  poet,  the  artist,  the  care-free  idler,  the  sportsman,  the  health  and 
pleasure-seeker,  and  all  people  of  all  conditions  who  long  for  rest  and  freedom  from 
the  responsibilities  and  trials,  the  irksome  tasks  and  environments  of  social  or  business 
life. 


DESCRIPTIVE. 


HE  THOUSAND  ISLANDS  is  but  a  name  for  over  sixteen  hundred  water-bound 
sections  of  land  varying  from  tiny  spots  upon  the  river's  surface  to  large  stretches 
sufficient  for  the  confines  of  a  city.  The  majority  of  them,  however,  are  com- 
paratively small,  ranging  from  one  to  twenty  acres  in  extent,  each  having  of  itself  a 
varied  attractiveness  in  the  form  of  pretty  coves,  high  bluffs  and  sloping  banks,  and  yet 
differing  from  its  neighbors  by  some  striking  peculiarity,  which  in  many  instances  has 
served  to  suggest  an  expressive  name.  The  islands  extend  almost  from  the  river's 
source  at  Cape  Vincent  in  New  York  and  Kingston  in  Canada,  to  Brockville  in  Canada 
and  Morristown  in  New  York,  a  distance  of  about  sixty  miles,  but  are  most  thickly  and 
pictures(iuely  grouped  in  the  vicinity  of  Alexandria  Ray,  N.  Y.,  which  is  about  midway 
between  the  points  named. 
Here,  too,  the  beauties  of 
nature  have  been  enhanced 
and  supplemented  by  an 
unstinted  outlay  of  wealth 
and  artistic  skill  in  the 
construction  of  palatial 
summer  homes,  and  the 
cultivation  and  adornment 
of  their  surroundings. 

UNFETTERKl)    NATURE. 

Nearly  every  island  where 
art  has  not  intruded  on  the 
works  of  nature  is  thickly 
wooded  with  birch  and  pine. 
Luxuriant  grasses  clothe 
the  earth  in  every  open  spot, 
and  vines  and  mosses  soften 
the  outlines  of  projecting 
rocks.  Wild  flowers  appear 
in  great  variety  and  abund- 
ance Forests  of  bull- 
rushes  grow  in  many  shal- 
low channels  and  bays,  with  their  numberless  long  brown  cat-tails  awaiting  the  children's 
harvest,  and  the  coveted  pond  lilies,  appearing  almost  like  waxen  images  of  flowers,  on 
their  broad  green  pads,  blossom  in  profusion  within  easy  reach  from  shore  or  skiff. 


IS   THE  CANADIAN   CHAN.VEL. 


8 


THE    THOrSAND  ISLANDS. 


SUMMER    HOMKS. 

The  summer  homes  of  the  wealthy  who  sojourn  in  this  delightful  region  every  year, 
dot  the  American  channel  on  either  side  from  a  point  several  miles  above  Clayton  to 
about  four  miles  below  Alexandria  Bay.  They  present  attractive  and,  in  some  cases, 
imposing  exteriors,  and  many  are  finished  and  furnished  as  elaborately  as  city  homes 
and  with  as  much  care  for  the  conveniences,  comforts  and  luxuries  to  which  the  owners 
are  accustomed.  Verandas  and  balconies  afford  shelter  from  sun  or  shower  or  evening 
dew.  Lawns  as  soft  as  velvet,  the  rich  green  of  spring-time  preserved  throughout  the 
summer  by  showers  from  artificial  fountains,  please  the  eye,  make  soft  couches  for  the 

lounger  and  smooth  grounds  for 
tennis  or  croquet,  lieds  of  flowers 
and  rare  plants,  arranged  in  at- 
tractive designs  and  tended  by 
master  hands, 
lend  brilliancy 
to  the  landscape. 
Masses  of  rock, 
and  clusters  of 
trees  form  cool 
and  cozy  nooks, 
while  supple 
young  birches 
give  easy  sup- 
port to  the  ham- 
mock and  the 
swing.  Rustic 
summer  -  houses 
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their  (juotas  to  the  opportunities  for  rest  and  comfort,  and  give  a  measure  of  variety  to 
the  scene.  Boat-houses  which  the  earlier  visitors  to  these  islands  would  have  deemed 
fit  for  homes  are  filled  with  various  styles  of  craft,  from  the  light  canoe  and  oarsman's 
skiff  to  the  swift  steam  yacht,  resplendent  with  brass  and  nickel  adornment,  and  capable 
of  bearing  half  a  hundred  passengers  through  every  lake  and  channel  of  this  wonderful 
laDyrinth.  Every  good  thing  that  affluence  can  provide  at  the  behest  of  desire  or  fancy 
is  found  here  at  the  service  of  these  inhabitants  of  America's  most  beautiful  resort. 

HOTELS. 

For  the  accommodation  of  transient  visitors  and  those  who  want  to  enjoy  the  vaca- 
tion season  entirely  free  from  the  cares  of  home  life,  hotels  great  and  small  have  been 
erected  at  various  points  on  the  mainlaiid  and  largest  islands.  The  most  pretentious  of 
these  are  at  Alexandria  Bay,  and  the  grandest  and  most  noted  is  The  Crossmon. 


THE  THOUSAND    ISLANDS. 


9 


LIFE   ON    THE    WATER. 

During  the  season  the  river  is  constantly  alive  with  all  manner  of  craft.  The 
St.  Lawrence  skiffs,  now  famed  the  world  over  for  their  graceful  lines,  handsome 
finish,  lightness  and  speed,  are  everywhere.  Furnished  with  easy  chair-backs,  cushions 
and  rugs,  and  gently  upborne  by  the  water,  there  are  no  hindrances  to  perfect  enjoy- 
ment in  them  for  hours  at  a  time,  for  fishing,  or  sight-.^ejing  or  indolently  floating,  and 
the  labor  of  handling  them  is  reduced  to  an  insignificant  minimum.  The  sailboat  has 
its  place,  too,  in  the  enjoyments  of  this  region,  and  the  St.  Lawrence  skiff  itself  is  also 
adapted"  to  ...r—    -  -y.^ 

that    purpose.  ''    ■•j*'**  -4^"w?»^ 

The  canoe 
and  the  racing 
shell  have 
their  devotees 
who  find  here 
every  essential 
for  enjoyment 
or  exercise. 
Tiny  steam 
yachts,  some 
devoted  to  the 
private  use  of 
islanders,  and 
others  for 
public  charter 

at  a  small  cost,  glide  up  and  down  and  shoot  in  and  out  among  the  islands,  wherever 
it  pleases  the  fancy  or  serves  the  purpose  to  go.  The  clumsy  scow,  laden  with  pro- 
visions for  the  islanders  from  the  Canadian  or  American  shore,  or  transporting 
material  for  the  work  of  improvement  and  enlargement,  spreads  its  sails  and  tacks 
back  and  forth  on  its  zigzag  course  in  a  slow  but  certain  endeavor  to  reach  its  destina- 
tion. Then  there  are  the  larger  passenger  steamers,  those  which  follow  routes  between 
the  various  villages  and  parks,  the  still  larger  and  swifter  ones  devoted  to  the  trans- 
portation of  passengers  from  the  railway  stations  and  for  public  excursions,  and  the 
immense  line-boats,  veritable  floating  palaces,  which  ply  between  the  lake  ports  and  the 
islands  and  run  the  fierce  rapids  below,  to  Montreal.  Fast  freight  steamers  plow  the 
waters  on  their  way  to  and  from  (Jgdensburg,  and  the  huge  hulks  of  steam  barges  or 
the  puffing  of  small  but  powerful  tug-boats,  with  a  dozen  heavily  freighted  barges 
in  tow,  are  common  sights.  Occasionally  a  ponderous  raft  containing  hundreds  of 
thousands  of  logs  and  timbers,  its  rough  huts  for  the  workmen  making  it  resemble  a 
floating  primitive  village,  moves  lazily  along  under  pressure  of  great  side-wheel 
steamers,  aided  by  the  current. 


IN  THB  REEDS  NEAR  WBLL8   ISLAND. 


AMONG   THE    ISLANDS. 


KMZAUKTU    WINSLOW    AI.LDEKDICK. 


Dreaming  wo  sailed  one  siimnier's  day. 

A  day  so  long  ago, 
Dreaming  as  only  iillcrs  may 

In  summer's  noontide  glow, 
Dreaming  as  only  \\<j;\\\  hearts  can 

Before  the  weigiit  of  years 
Has  fettered  mirth  with  cruel  ban 

And  freighted  life  with  tears. 

Sailing  'mid  islands  green  and  fair 

On  broad  St.  Lawrence  tide, 
Where  worldly  thought  and  worldly  care 

All  entrance  are  denied — 
Nothing  liut  nature  still  and  sweet, 

Nature  l)eyond  compare, 
The  shilling  water  'nealh  our  feet, 

Around  the  summer  air. 

White  clouds  move  slowly  o'er  the  blue, 

White  shadows  lie  below; 
They  stir  not  at  our  gliding  through, 

So  lazily  we  go. 
The  tisher's  craft  with  sails  unfurled 

Drift  with  us  down  the  tide, 
While  ships  from  out  the  busy  world 

Far  in  the  oiling  ride. 


The  isles  are  green,  so  richly  green 

With  leaf  of  birch  and  pine. 
The  lordly  oak  and  forest  (pieen 

Their  graceful  limbs  entwine, 
The  slender  cattails,  brown  and  tall. 

Nod  us  a  welcome  near; 
No  sound  save  gurgling  ripples  fall 

Upon  the  tranced  ear. 

The  fisher's  hut  beside  the  shore 

•Seems  sleeping  willi  the  tide; 
No  shadows  through  the  open  door 

Across  the  threshold  glide. 
With  dreamy  drift  we  slowly  steal. 

Heedless  of  passing  time; 
We  hear  the  rip])les  on  our  keel, 

Singing  their  low  sweet  rhyme. 

That  low  sweet  music  echoes  yet, 

Those  islands  green  and  fair, 
That  summer  day  we  ne'er  forget, 

Its  balmy,  blissful  air. 
Relentless  time  has  swei)t  us  down 

liife's  ocean  broad  and  deeji. 
Hut  later  fortune's  smile  or  frown 

Ne'er  bids  that  memory  sleep. 

The  Continent. 


HISTORICAL. 


r^HE  place  which  this  beautiful  region  holds  in  American  history  is  second  only  to 

1^    that  occupied  by  New  England  and   Plymouth   Rock,  while  the  memories  and 

traditions  which  cluster  around  it  are  (juite  as  thrilling  and  romantic  as  are  to  be 

i     found  anywhere  in  the  new  world.     Wars,  piracy,  tragedy  and  mystery  have 

contributed  to  its  lore. 
The  St.  Lawrence  was  discovered  by  Jacques  Cartier,  the  French  explorer,  in  1535, 
but  he  did   not  proceed  further  up  the  stream  than  was  necessary  in  exploring  the 


1i0.i:'M^'^^-  ■•  .^^..-■•^ .  ¥■  ■ 


'0U>  WlNDMIutr^NEAR  Pfe^^^COtf ''OmP^  ON.KfVEff  '!>T,-LawS'>  MCE 
MELD  BY  'PATRIOT"  RE!bEL5    IN    1537 

it.  Louis  rapids  above  Montreal.  There  is  much  uncertainty  as  to  the  identity  of  the 
white  man  who  first  gazed  upon  the  marvelous  scene  presented  by  the  Thousand 
Islands.  The  early  discoverers,  as  a  rule,  were  less  interested  'n  scenery  than  in  the 
practical  things  which  pertained   to  navigation,  trade  and  travel,  and  the  spreading  of 

Christianity.  Champlain,  in  16 15,  beginning  at  the 
western  end  of  Lake  Ontario,  explored  that  lake  and 
the  St.  Lawrence  to  Sorel  river,  thus  passing  through 
this  region.  How  or  when  or  by  whom  the  world's 
attention  was  first  called  to  this  archipelago  is  a  matter 
of  doubt,  but  certainly  at  an  early  date  it  had  impressed 
itself  upon  the  lover  of  the  grand  and  beautiful  in 
nature,  and  at  least  a  century  and  a  half  ago  the  French 
christened  it  "  Les  Mille  Isles" — The  Thousand  Isles. 
The  later  and  more  completely  descriptive  English  name 
for  it  is  "The  Lake  of  a  Thousand  Islands."*  The 
St.  Lawrence  has  marked  the  line  of  separation  and  the 

DRIED   ORASSES  FROM  THE   ISLANDS. 

*.So  called  on  a  map  of  the  Atlantic  coast  region  of  North  America,  in  the  Boston  Public  Library,  published  in 
Paris  in  1768. 


THE  T1I0U8AND   ISLANDH. 


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Thousand  Islands  have  been  the  scene  of  some  of  the  important  campaigns  in  four  great 
conflicts  between  nations.  The  first  was  the  Indian  war  between  the  Algontjuins  and 
the  Irocjuois,  which  continued  many  years,  with  occasional  intermissions.  The  second 
struggle  was  between  the  French  and  English,  and  many  of  its  hostile  meetings  and 
victories  and  defeats  took  place  among  the  islands  and  on  the  neighboring  shores.  In 
the  American  revolutionary  war  with  England,  and  that  between  the  same  forces  in 
1812,  the  defense  of  this  locality  was  of  decided  importance;  therefore  it  witnessed 
much  activity,  and  some  memorable  engagements  were  tought  within  sight  and  sound 
of  this  spot,  now  so  happily  devoted  to  the  pursuits  of  pleasure,  with  no  warring  or 
warlike  nations  to  trouble  the  calm  of  perpetual  peace. 

Many  of  the  most  e.xciting  incidents  of  that  disastrous  military  adventure  known 
as  the  Patriot  war,  with  its  iitermittent  outbreaks  from  1837  to  1839,  took  place  on  this 
part  of  the  river,  notably  the  capture  of  the  Hritish  steamer  Sir  Robert  Peel,  near  Wells 
Island,  on  the  night  of  May  29,  1838,  and  the  battle  of  the  Windmill,  near  Prescott, 
Ont.,  November  13,  of  the  same  year. 

niLL    JOHNSON, 

Prominent  in  the  attack  on  the  steamer  and  its  subsequent  destruction  by  fire,  was 
the  famous  Bill  Johnson,  for  whose  capture  a  large  reward  was  offered,  and  who  was 

successful  in  hiding 
among  these  islands 
many  months,  his 
daughter  carrying 
food  to  him  and 
conveying  him  from 
one  place  of  safety 
to  another  more 
secure.  An  island 
near  Alexandria 
Bay  known  as  the 
Devil's  Oven,  be- 
cause of  its  peculiar 
shape,  is  said  to 
have  been  one  of 
his  hiding  places. 
Two  steamers  were 
employed  for  many 

weeks  in  the  search  for  the  outlaw  among  the  islands,  but  he  was  only  captured  after 
giving  himself  up  to  his  son  in  order  that  the  latter  could  claim  the  reward.  His  sub- 
sequent escape  as  well  as  all  the  interesting  facts  of  the  Patriots'  struggle,  are  matters 
of  general  history. 


DEVIL  8  OVKN. 


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TIIK  TIIOU8AND   IrtLANUS. 


'^'ii^Z.lSr^^ 


CHARI.F.S   CROSSMON  S    MEMORAIII.F,    EXPERIENCE. 

The  laie  (Charles  Crossnion,  then  a  young  man,  was  in  the  ranks  of  the  I'atriot 
force  which  invaded  Canada,  participating  in  the  battle  of  the  Windmill  and  being  cap- 
tured and  taken  to  Kingston.  During  the  following  winter  he  was  confined  with  others 
in  the  old  fort  at  that  place.  Ten  of  his  comrades  were  hanged  and  a  much  larger 
number  sentenced  to  penal  servitude  in  Van  Dieman's  land.  Mr,  Crossmon's  situation 
was  a  precarious  one  for  some  time,  but  on  account  of  his  youth  he  was  finally  released 
and  lived  to  win  fame  in  a  less  adventurous  and  much  more  profitable  pursuit. 

AS   A    I'OrUI.AR     RKSORT. 

The  past  two  decades  have  witnessed  the  larger  and  more  phenomenal  growth  of 
the  islands  as  a  summer  resort  for  the  multitudes.  In  1782  Gen.  Cirant  visited  here  as 
the  guest  of  George  M. 
Pullman,  the  palace  car 
magnate,  on  his  island 
near  Alexandria  Hay. 
The  visit  continued 
eight  days,  and  attracted 
the  attention  of  thous- 
ands to  the  St.  Lawrence. 
In  the  same  year  the  ed- 
itorial associations  of  the 
north  and  the  south  had 
a  joint  excursion  and 
dined  on  Pullman's 
island,  the  meal  being 
served  from  The  Cross- 
mon.  The  glowing  praises  bestowed  by  these  visitors  were  read  throughout  the  land, 
and  since  that  time  there  has  been  a  rapid  and  ever  increasing  development  of  this 
locality  as  a  desirable  place  for  a  season's  outing  or  a  vacation  trip. 

In  1887  President  Cleveland  and  wife,  with  a  party  of  friends,  made  a  trip  among 
the  islands  and  added  their  tributes  to  the  beauty  of  this  spot.  In  1890  the  New  York 
Press  Association  held  its  annual  meeting  at  The  Crossmon,  and  spent  several  days  on 
the  river,  the  members  vieing  with  each  other  in  their  printed  descriptions  and  com- 
ments on  their  delightful  experiences,  fishing  exploits,  excursions,  etc. 

To-day  in  magazine  articles,  newspaper  sketches,  and  in  the  realm  of  poetry  as 
well,  the  Thousand  Islands  are  frequently  and  prominently  mentioned,  and  no  route- 
book  is  complete  which  does  not  have  this  resort  among  the  first  on  its  list.  The  his- 
tory of  home-building  here  would  make  a  tale  of  evolution  from  the  rough  cabins  which 
in  early  days  served  the  purpose  of  sojourners  during  the  hunting  and  fishing  seasons 
to  the  elegant  establishments  occupied  by  families  from  all  parts  of  the  country  during 
the  entire  heated  term.  The  best  example  of  this  development  is  the  picturesque  castle 
built  by  Mr.  Pullman  on  the  former  site  of  the  house  in  which  Gen.  Grant  was  his  guest. 


GHOGRArillCAL. 


The  river  St.  Lawrence,  together  with  the  great  lakes,  comprise  what  has  been 
aptly  termed  the  grandest  system  of  inland  navigation  in  the  world.  I'rom  its  remotest 
beginning — the  St.  Louis  river,  which  flows  into  Fond  du  Lac  at  the  head  of  Lake 
Superior — to  its  union  with  the  sea  at  Cape  Ciaspe,  it  is  2,100  miles.  The  river 
St.  Louis,  the  Mississippi  and  the  Red  River  of  the  North  rise  on  the  same  broad  level 
withm  a  comparatively  small  range  in  Minnesota  and  reach  the  ocean  by  widely 
diverging  courses — the  first  by  the  Gulf  of  St.  Lawrence,  the  second  by  the  Gulf  of 
Mexico  and  the  third  by  Hudson's  bay. 

According  to  the  latest  records,  the  total  area  of  the  St.  Lawrence  basin  is  about 
510,000  scjuare  miles,  of  which  the  United  States  owns  187,440  and  Canada  322,560. 
The  total  length  of  the  river,  from  Kingston  to  Cape  Gaspe,  is  728  miles,  and  that 


I  IIM'I.KK  s    LLlluW. 


division  of  the  stream  in  which  the  Thousand  Islands  are,  extending  from  Kingston  to 
Prescott,  where  the  rapids  and  canal  section  begins,  is  68  miles  in  length. 

The  St.  Lawrence  and  the  great  lakes  form  a  natural  boundary  between  the  United 
States  and  Canada,  and  the  actual  international  line  runs  as  nearly  as  practicable  in  a 
middle  course  between  the  shores  (excepting  Lake  Michigan,  which  is  entirely  in  the 
Ignited  States  territory)  to  a  point  near  Cornwall,  Ont.,  about  fifty  miles  below  Prescott, 
where  the  river  becomes  exclusively  Canadian. 

The  river's  greatest  width  in  the  section  of  the  Thousand  Islands  is  at  its  source, 
where  it  is  about  ten  miles  wide.  In  the  vicinity  of  Alexandria  Bay  it  is  about  three 
miles  in  width.     The  exact  number  of  the  islands  is  1,692. 


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ITS    HISTORY,    LOCATION    AND    ADVANTAGES. 


Nowhere  in  a  similar  period  has  the  advancement  in  hotel  accommodations  and 
management  been  marked  by  such  rapid  strides  as  at  the  Thousand  Islands.  In  the 
matter  of  time  The  Crossmon  was  the  first  establishment  devoted  to  the  entertainment 
of  guests  who  visited  this  region   in  search  of  sport  and   recreation,  and  it  has  since 

continued  to  be  first  in 
every  other  respect.  From 
small  beginnings  it  has 
developed  to  its  present 
magnificent  proportions,  a 
five-story  structure  with  the 
most  modern  and  luxurious 
appointments  and  capable 
of  accommodating  a  multi- 
tude of  guests. 

The  original  Crossmon 
house  was  a  two-story  build- 
ing with  ten  guest-rooms. 
In  that  day  its  guests  en- 
countered what  would  now 
be  called  serious  difficulties 
in  reaching  the  islands. 
The  general  line  of  travel 
thither  was  along  he  canal 
by  packet  boat  to  Oswego 
and  thence  down  Lake 
Ontario  to  the  river,  though 
some  preferred  the  over- 
land route  by  stage  from 
THK  CROSSMON  IN  1S4S.  Utlca.       But    evcH    under 

[these  adverse  circumstances,  this  now  world-famed  region  and  almost  equally  noted 
Ihotel  witnessed  the  holiday  e.xploits  of  some  of  the  nation's  greatest  men  and  were 
jcounted  worthy  of  elaborate  description  by  some  of  the  most  entertaining  writers. 

The  late  Charles  Crossmon,  father  of  the  present  proprietor  of  the  immense  estab- 
lishment which  bears  that  name,  began  his  career  as  a  hotel  keeper  at  Alexandria  Bay 
\n  1848.  His  clear  discernment  of  the  future  led  him  to  select  the  most  advantageous 
site  in  this  most  charming  portion  of  the  island  scenery,  and  the  wisdom  of  his  choice 
las  received  the  highest  endorsement  that  an  unprecedented  and  unrivalled  success  can 


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TIIK   THOUSAND    ISLANDS. 


furnish.  The  plainest  accommodations  were  provided  for  The  Crossmon's  early  guests, 
but  they  were  such  as  won  the  approbation  of  Martin  and  John  Van  Ruren,  Governor 
Seward,  Silas  Wright,  Frank  Blair,  and  others  famous  in  the  affairs  of  state  and  in 
professional  and  business  activities,  who  sought  and  found  in  this  solitude  that  freedom 
from  care  and  rest  from  labor,  that  communion  with  nature,  the  invigorating  atmos- 
phere,  the   opportunities   for   the   exercise   of  the  sportsman's   prowess  and  all  the 


THE  CROSSMON   IN  1863. 

incentives  to  enjoyment  which  are  important  factors  in  reviving  overtaxed  physical  and 
mental  powers.  And  all  this  their  successors  find  to-day,  for  the  advent  of  the  fashion- 
able crowd  and  the  erection  of  modern  hotels  and  elegant  homes  have  not  detracted  in 
any  appreciable  degree  from  the  boundless  attractions  here  offered  to  the  seeker  after 
quiet  and  rest. 

THE    NEW    CROSSMON. 

As  the  tide  of  pleasure  travel  set  in  toward  the  St.  Lawrence  and  its  islands.  The 
Crossmon  was  from  time  to  time  enlarged,  and  finally  the  present  magnificent  hotel  was 
built  on  the  site  of  its  earliest  predecessor.  In  the  new  structure  everything  that  is 
desirable  in  a  first  class  summer  hotel  has  been  provided  for,  and  in  its  management 
every  facility  is  furnished  and  the  fullest  attention  given  to  the  wishes  and  requirements 
of  its  guests. 

Its  rooms  are  all  pleasantly  situated,  affording  charming  views  of  the  neighboring 
scenery.     There  are  suites  for  families,  with  private  bath-rooms  and  all  conveniences- 


THE  THOUSAND   ISLANDS. 


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besides  single  and  connecting  rooms  in  every  part  of  the  house,  all  handsomely  fur- 
nished. The  elevator  is  in  operation  constantly  and  the  stairways  are  broad  and  easy. 
There  are  spacious  and  elegantly  furnished  drawing-rooms,  wide  corridors  and  broad 
verandas,  and  from  the  latter  one  of  the  most  delightful  pictures  to  be  found  in  this 
entire  region  may  be  had. 


THE  CROBSUON  IN  1873. 

The  main  dining-room  is  on  the  river  side  of  the  house.  Its  tables  are  furnished 
with  costly  china,  silver  and  cut  glass,  and  the  finest  linen,  and  supplied  with  the  rarest 
fruits  and  delicacies.  Its  service  is  unexcelled,  being  by  gentlemanly  young  men  under 
the  efficient  direction  of  an  experienced  metropolitan  chef  serviteur. 

A  pleasant  dining-room  is  provided  for  children  in  charge  of  nurses. 

The  kitchens  of  The  Crossmon  are  presided  over  by  a  first  class  chef  de  cuisine 
with  competent  assistants,  at  whose  disposal  in  the  preparation  of  delectable  and  appe- 
tizing viands  there  is  an  abundance  of  everything  that  the  best  markets  offer. 

The  importance  of  providing  special  comforts  and  amusements  for  the  children  is 
recognized  in  many  ways  in  and  about  this  establishment.  There  are  accommodations 
for  nurses  in  their  care  of  the  little  ones,  and  opportunities  for  wholesome  sports  are  at 
hand.  Perhaps  the  most  popular  attraction  in  this  department  is  the  "  Burro  Brigade," 
a  troop  of  patient  Rocky  Mountain  donkeys,  brought  from  New  Mexico  for  the  use  of 
The  Crossmon's  IjttJ?  folks.     These  gentle  animals  are  trained  for  riding  and  driving 


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THE   THOUSAND    ISLANDS. 


AllTKSIAN   WKI.L. 


and  give  many  an  hour's  delightful  amusement.  A  goat  trained  for  driving  is  kept  for 
the  use  of  the  smaller  children,  while  on  the  lawn,  in  the  shade  of  the  trees,  are  boxes 
filled  with  sand  for  their  amusement. 

An  artesian  well,  sunk  to  a  depth  of  sixty-five  feet 
in  the  solid  granite  on  the  point  near  the  hotel, 
furnishes  an  inexhaustible  supply  of  purest  drinking 
water,  clear,  cool  and  refreshing. 

A  superior  orchestm  gives  morning  concerts  in 
the  drawing-room,  plays  during  the  hours  for  dining 
antl  for  the  dancing  in  the  evenmg. 

The  in-door  social  amusements  include  dancing, 
games,  entertainments,  promenading  on  the  extensive 
verandas  and  through  the  long  halls,  etc.  Out-of- 
doors,  tennis  and  crocjuet  interest  the  young  folks  on 
grounds  devoted  to  their  use.  The  Crossmon's  sur- 
roundings are  attractive.  Every  crevice  of  the 
immense  rock  upon  which  its  river  side  rests  is 
adorned  with  a  bed  of  flowers  or  a  small  shrub.  On 
the  street  side  are  graveled  walks  and  drives  and  a 
circular  plat  for  out-door  games,  with  easy  benches 

protected  by  a  canopy.     Stretching  eastward  from  the  hotel  \>,  Crossmon's  Point,  with 

its  broad  level  lawn,  bordered  by  the  docks  and  landings  for  steamboats  and  skiffs. 
At   night  the  Crossmon,  in-doors  and 

out,  presents  a  scene  of  brilliancy.  Rows 

of  colored  lights  illumine  the  verandas, 

and   shine  from  its  many  towers,   shed- 
ding a  wealth  of  color  upon  the  water. 

The  drawing-rooms  are  filled  with  guests 

engaged  in  social  pastimes,  and  all  about 

the   place   there  is   light    and    life   and 

gaiety.     The  arrival  of  the  steamers   at 

evening   is   celebrated   by   a   display   of 

fireworks  in  front  of  the  hotel  and  on  the 

neighboring    islands,   making   a   picture 

indescribably  beautiful. 

Lunches  for  fishing  and  picnic  parties 
are  provided  for  the  guests  of  the  hotel, 
without  extra  charge,  with  all  the  neces- 
saries for  an  enjoyable  open-air  feast  on 
one  of  the  many  unoccupied  islands  and  points. 


THK    THOUSAND    ISLANDS. 


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The  most  experienced  oarsmen  on  the  river  make  their  headciuarters  at  The 
Grossmen's  docks  and  may  be  engaged  by  applying  at  the  office,  lioats  and  fishing 
tackle  are  easily  obtainable. 

Mr.  Charles  \V.  Crossmon  succeeds  the  firm  of  Crossmon  i\:  Son,  whose  manage- 
ment has  made  this  hotel  noted  throughout  the  world  and  the  favorite  headquarters  in 
later  days  of  such  men  as  President  Arthur,  Gen.  Sheridan,  Cardinal  McGloskey, 
Herbert  Spencer,  Charles  Dudley  Warner,  B.  F.  Reinhart,  Will  Carleton,  and  other 
notables,  whose  spoken  and  written  praises  have  added  greatly  to  the  popularity  of  the 
islands  and   The   Crossmon,     From   his  early  youth  the  present  proprietor  has  been 


FI.SHINO    I'AUTIES   AT   FIIONT    ISLAND. 

closely  identified  with  the  management,  and  has  added  to  his  experience  by  the  prac- 
tical study  of  the  latest  methods  and  improvements  in  leading  hotels  throughout  the 
country.  Under  his  undivided  control,  The  Crossmon  will  continue  to  maintain  its 
high  standard  of  excellence,  adding  to  its  advantages  wherever  possible. 

As  the  hotel  is  crowded  much  of  the  time  during  the  season,  it  is  advisable  for 
parties  desiring  accommodations  to  engage  them  in  advance.  For  this  purpose  and  for 
all  desired  information  on  the  subject,  address  the  proprietor, 

CHARLKS   \V.   CROSSMON, 

THK   CROSSMON",   Alexandria  Uuj-,    N.    Y. 


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CHARACTERISTIC    FEATURES. 


fN  the  descriptive  article  of  this  book  an  outline  is  given  of  some  of  the  amusements 
common  to  this  resort.  A  general  idea  is  all  that  can  be  imparted  in  reference  to 
them.  The  observant  visitor  cannot  fail  to  find  a  variety  of  attractions  to  occupy 
his  time  and  make  the  days  pass  like  brief  moments.  Indeed  in  this  paradise  of  nature 
there  seems  to  be  little  need  of  amusement,  as  it  is  a  constant  and  ever  increasing 
delight  to  sit  or  recline  on  piazzas  or  grassy  banks,  or  in  idly  drifting  boats,  dreaming 
away  the  hours  under  the  soothing 
spell  of  the  soft  summer  air  and 
beautiful  surroundings.  But  those 
who  seek  more  active  pleasures  will 
find  them  on  every  hand  and  in 
every  form. 

FISH    AND    FISHING, 

Perhaps  there  is  no  more  popular 
amusement,  nor  one  that  gives  so 
much  satisfaction,  as  a  day's  fishing 
trip,  with  a  competent  oarsman,  a 
comfortable  boat,  a  generous  lunch, 
and  all  the  requisites  for  successful 
angling.  The  Thousand  Island 
oarsman  has  reduced  his  occupation 
to  a  science,  and  can  give  his  patrons 
exceptional  opportunities  for  the 
rarest  sport,  with  surroundings  in 
every  way  agreeable.  He  provides 
boat,  fishing  tackle  and  everything 
except  lunch  and  bait.  The  latter 
he  obtains  in  accordance  with  his 
employers'  wishes  and  the  former  is 
furnished  by  the  hotel,  including 
linen,  dishes,  ice,  etc.  The  wise 
fisherman  makes  an  early  start,  and  is  rowed  to  some  one  of  the  many  localities  where 
game  fish  abound.  Trolling  and  still-fishing  and  all  the  forms  of  the  sport  are  indulged 
in,  and  the  noon-time  rarely  comes  until  the  fish  box  has  received  at  least  enough  for 
a  good  dinner.  A  landing  is  made  on  an  unoccupied  island,  and  the  oarsman  is  trans- 
formed into  a  cook,  whose  equal,  in  the  preparation  of  fish  at  least,  cannot  be  found 
even  in  the  service  of  a  Delmonico.     Packed  away  beneath  the  seats  and  in  the  bow 


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TJIK    THOUSAND    ISLANDS. 


and  stern  of  the  boat  he  finds  a  table,  camp  chairs  and  cooking  utensils,  besides  all  the 
re(|uirements  for  a  dinner.  He  builds  a  fire,  cleans  and  cooks  the  fish  and  potatoes 
and  makes  a  pot  of  most  fragrant  and  delicious  coffee.     The  table  is  set  and  there  in 

the  open  air,  with  nature's  fairest 
blessings  all  around,  is  a  feast  so 
appetizing  and  so  complete  that 
none  who  have  ever  enjoyed  it 
can  find  words  to  express  their 
fullest  appreciation,  or  live  so 
long  as  to  have  the  pleasant 
memory  dimmed. 
After  the  meal  there  is  time  for 
a  short  nap  or  a  ramble  over  the 
island,  while  the  boatman  con- 
cludes his  services  as  waiter 
and  kitchen  maid.  The  remain- 
der 01  the  afternoon  is  devoted 
to  angling  for  rare  game,  and  if, 
perchance,  a  muscallonge  takes 
the  bait  and  is  successfully  land- 
ed the  white  flag  waves  proudly 
from  the  bow  as  the  skiff  speeds 
homeward  at  the  setting  of  the 
sun. 
So  attractive  has  this  pursuit  of 
sport  been  made  at  the  Thousand  Islands,  that  ladies  enjoy  it  quite  as  much  as  thosa 
of  the  sterner  sex,  and  a  visit  to  the  river  is  not  complete  without  such  an  experience. 

Fine  specimens  of  the  muscallonge,  king  of  fresh 
water  fish,  black  bass,  Oswego  bass,  wall-eyed  pike  and 
pickerel  of  unusual  size  are  captured  in  these  waters, 
in  astonishingly  large  numbers,  every  season. 

DUCK    HUNTING. 

In  the  fall  many  clever  marksmen  gather  here  for 
the  duck  hunting  season,  and  are  usually  successful  in 
obtaining  some  fine  specimens. 

STEAMBOAT    LINES. 

The  transportation  facilities  between  Alexandria 
Bay  and  all  points  on  the  river  and  Lake  Ontario  are 
all  that  can  be  desired.  The  swift  and  handsome  steamers  of  the  Thousand  Island 
Steamboat  Company  connect  with  every  train  at  Clayton  and  Cape  Vincent,  and  with 
steamers  for  all  points,  while  other  boats  of  this  fleet  make  excursions  among  the 


THE   IIIFT. 


THE  THOUSAND   ISLANDS. 


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islands,  and  to  the  several  interesting  river  towns  on  either  shore.  The  Alexandria 
Bay  Steamboat  Company  has  a  route  between  the  Bay  and  Ogdensburg,  and  its  new 
Island  Wanderer  makes  a  fifty  mile  trip  among  the  islands,  which  is  one  of  the  most 
delightful  features  of  this  resort.  The  Richelieu  and  Ontario  Ime  of  .steamers  carry 
thousands  of  passengers  down  the  river  and  through  the  rapids.  The  Rochester  and 
Thousand  Island  Navigation  Company  and  others  have  speedy  and  well  ecjuipped 
steamers  running  between  the  lake  and  river  ports  during  the  entire  season. 

RAILROAD    FACIMTIES. 

The  N.  Y.  C.  &  H.  R.  R.  R.  (Company,  operating  the  Rome,  Watertown  &  Ogdens- 
burg railroad,  the  shortest  and  best  route  to  the  Thousand  Islands,  provides  luxurious 
vestibuled  day  and  night  trains,  run  on  fast  schedules  and  making  but  few  stops  be- 
tween connecting  points  on  the  Central  and  the  River.  By  the  co-operation  of  the  rail- 
road and  steamboat  lines  a 
system  of  transportation  is 
secured  which  is  unexcelled 
in  safety,  convenience, 
promptness  and  comfort. 

THE    PARKS. 

Thousand  Island,  West- 
minster, Central,  Round 
Island,  Edgewood  and 
Grand  View  Parks  are 
among  the  noted  places  on 
the  river,  because  of  their 
exceptionally  fine  locations 
and  the  attractions  they 
offer  to  those  desiring  quiet 
summer  homes.  They  have 
grown  to  the  proportions  of 
towns,  with  handsome  cot- 
tages and  broad,  well  shad- 
ed avenues.  The  largest 
and  oldest  of  these  parks,  the  Thousand  Island,  is  controlled  by  Methodists,  and, 
though  subject  to  the  restrictions  of  a  religious  organization,  is  the  summer  home  of 
thousands  from  all  parts  of  the  country. 

THE    LAKE    OF    THE    ISLES. 

Perhaps  the  most  beautiful  spot  in  all  this  collection  of  nature's  gems  is  the  Lake 
of  the  Isles,  so  secluded  as  to  be  free  from  the  swarm  of  river  travel  and  the  intrusion 
of  the  cottager,  and  yet  within  a  half-hour's  row  from  Alexandria  Bay.  It  is  about  four 
miles  long,  and  is  prettily  set  into  the  lower  end  of  Wells  Island,  Its  inlet  is  through 
the  rift,  along  which  a  skiff  is  swiftly  carried  by  the  current,  needing  only  the  oarsman's 


INLET  TO  THE  RIKT. 


THE  THOUSAND  ISLANDS. 


guidance  to  make  the  passage  safely.  Its  outlet,  which  is  generally  used  in  going  in  or 
oat  of  the  lake,  is  a  narrow  channel  guarded  by  high  rocks,  and  giving  a  very  striking 
and  truthful  suggestion  of  the  scenery  to  which  it  leads. 


ILLUMINATIONS    AND   SALUTES. 

The  traveler  who  arrives  at  the  Thousand  Islands  in  the  evening  and  makes  the 
passage  down  the  river  from  Clayton  to  Alexandria  Hay,  or  the  excursionist  who 
patronizes  a  "searchlight"  trip  among  the  islands,  beholds  a  scene  of  splendor  rivaling 

the  most  brilliant  crea- 
tions of  the  Venetians. 
All  along  the  American 
channel,  between  the 
points  mentioned,  the 
passing  of  the  steamer  at 
evening  is  the  signal  for  a 
grand,  continuous  dis- 
play of  fireworks,  rockets, 
Roman  candles,  and  vari- 
colored lights  arranged 
in  elaborate  designs. 
Every  hotel  and  private 
residence  has  its  towers, 
windows  and  verandas 
illuminated,  many  evi- 
dencing lavish  expendi- 
ture and  admirable  artis- 
tic skill.  The  heavens 
are  lighted  up  by  the 
momentary  flight  of  arti- 
ficial stars  through  space, 
and  the  waters  are  ablaze 
with  the  reflection  of  the 
brilliancy  on  shore.  It  is 
a  sight  that  cannot  be 
fully  depicted,  but  once 
seen  it  will  never  be 
forgotten. 

No  passenger  steamer  passes  up  or  down  the  river  at  any  time  during  the  summer 
visitors'  stay  at  the  islands  without  receiving  a  hearty  greeting  from  the  sojourners 
along  the  shore.  Cannons,  firearms,  horns  and  flags  are  employed  to  emphasize  the 
welcome  and  the  good  wishes,  while  happy  parties  are  grouped  on  shore  or  dock,  waving 


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hands  and  handkerchiefs  and  awaiting  the  steamer's  answer  to  their  salute,  which  is 
invariably  given  by  three  blows  from  the  whistle,  accompanied  by  the  pleased  acknowl- 
edgements of  the  passengers. 

THK    wanderer's     TRIP. 

The  New  Island  Wanderer  makes  a  fifty-mile  trip  among  the  islands  twice  a  day 
during  the  season.  Its  route  is  through  the  most  attractive  of  the  island  scenery 
including  its  wildest  features,  as  well  as 
many  of  the  points  where  art  has  been 
employed  to  add  to  nature's  charms. 

ARCnrrECTURAL     FEATURES. 

Within  the  past  few  years  there  has 
been  a  remarkable  evolution  in  the 
style  of  the  structure  erected  by  the 
wealthy  for  summer  homes  at  the 
islands.  From  tents  and  rude  shelters 
made  from  rough  boards  and  bark,  it 
passed  to  the  comfortable  cottage,  and 
then  on  to  the  form  and  size  of  per- 
manent and  luxurious  city  establish, 
ments.  Some  of  the  most  noted  archi- 
tects in  the  country  have  been  em- 
jployed  in  the  planning  of  buildings 
erected  here  in  recent  years,  and  the 
most  skillful  artisans  have  executed 
their  plans,  while  money  has  not  been  spared  in  supplying  the  best  material  with  which 
to  construct  and  decorate.  The  furnishings  are  as  elegant,  and  in  some  respects  as 
costly,  as  in  the  winter  homes  of  the  families  for  whom   they   are  provided.     In  many 

cases  the  residences  have  outbuildings,  in  which  laundrying  and 
other  work  is  done  and  power  furnished  for  illuminating  the 
house  and  grounds  by  electricity  and  supplying  a  miniature 
system  of  water  works  extending  to  all  parts  of  the  owner's 
domain. 

The  beauty  of  design  of  many  of  the  private  steam  yachts  and 
the  richness  of  their  finishing  and  furnishings  are  in  keeping  with 
the  general  character   of  the  establishments   with   which   they 
tr^'   are  connected. 


VIKW  IN  TBB  LAKB. 


SEARCH-LIGHT     EXCURSIONS. 


A  novel  experience  which  may  be  enjoyed  here  is  a  search-light  excursion  among 
the  islands.     The  steamers  St.  Lawrence  and  New  Island  Wanderer  make  these  trips 


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TIIK    rilOlNANI)    ISLANDS. 


every  evening  when  the  season  is  at  its  height.  They  have  powerful  electric  search- 
lights so  arranged  above  their  pilot  houses  that  the  operators  can  turn  them  in  any 
direction  in  an  instant,  Hashing  a  flood  of  radiance  over  objects  as  far  away  as  the  eye 
can  reach.  Ludicrous  incidents  sometimes  occur  in  the  course  of  these  excursions, 
such  as  the  sudden  llashing  of  the  light's  piercing  rays  on  some  lover's  nook  where  two 
souls  indulging  in  but  (jne  th(night  are  ruthlessly  awakened  Irom  sweet  seclusion  to  the 
most  glarhig  publicity.  Some  exceedingly  beautifid  effects  are  produ(  ed  by  the  rays 
of  the  search-light  as  they  are  cast  upon  the  trees  and  rocks  of  the  shores,  or  upon 


small  yachts  and  skiffs  gliding  along  the  river.  The  sides  of  the  pretty  craft  glisten 
like  stars  set  in  the  dark  water,  and  their  occupants  seem  more  fairy-like  than  human. 
As  the  light  sweeps  across  land  and  water,  from  point  to  point  it  reveals  many  scenes 
worthy  of  the  gifted  artist's  brush  and  imparts  to  them  a  peculiar  appearance  as  of  a 
glorious  painting  framed  in  boundless  gloom.  But,  perhaps,  the  most  charming  sight 
is  that  which  is  observed  on  rare  occasions  when  a  large  white-vanned  bird  is  caught 
within  the  circle  of  the  light  and  persistently  followed  until  its  strong  wings  carry  it 
beyond  the  range  of  its  pursuer.  The  contrast  presented  by  the  deep  blue  waters,  the 
surrounding  darkness  and  the  bird  in  its  flight,  with  its  form  silvered  by  the  intense 
radiance,  makes  a  picture  that  is  fanciful  and  fascinating  in  the  extreme. 


ISLAND   DINNER. 


VIEWS  OF  DttWBY's  ISLAND. 


THE    RAPIDS. 


ULTITUDES  who  pass  through  the  Thousand  Island  region  inchulc  in  their 
journey  the  exciting  experience  of  running  the  rapids  of  the  St.  Lawrence. 
From  the  islands  the  entire  trip  is  made  by  dayUght  on  the  steamers  of  the  Riclielieu 
and  Ontario  Company's  line,  and  tiiere  is  a  constant  succession  of  pleasing  views  and 
thri'.ling  passages  until  the  staunch  craft  is  finally  tossed  from  the  foaming  waters  of 
the  Lachine  rapids  into  the  harbor  of  Montreal. 

The    Indians  first  learned  to  run  these  rapids,  under  the  stimulus   of  a  liberal 
reward  offered  by  white  mariners,  and  for  many  years  they  were  generally  employed 
as  pilots,  though  recently  while  men  have  taken  their  places  to  a  large  extent. 
m:,".     ',   .  ":  ."'-.,  ':'«"■. .„:H^.„..  :,....  ,411        The  (ialloups  and  the  Rapids  du  Plat  are  the 

first  and  least  exciting,  though  they  afforil 
sufficient  change  from  the  smooth  surface  and 
steady  current  of  the  upper  portion  of  the  river 
to  give  a  suggestion  of  the  fierceness  and 
grandeur  to  come.  Nature  seems  to  have 
graduated  the  development  of  this  wontler  as 
the  playwright  or  novelist  carries  his  story 
along  with  ever  increasing  interest  to  a  thrill- 
ing climax.  T!.e  Long  Sault  rapids  are  the 
third  in  the  series,  being  nine  miles  in  length 
and  having  two  navigable  channels  divided  by 
islands.  The  scenery  commands  admirat  jn 
from  every  point,  i'he  boat  passes  from  the 
turmoil  of  these  rapids  into  the  placid  waters 
of  Lake  St.  Francis,  which  has  a  length  of 
forty  miles  and  an  average  width  of  five  miles. 
This  part  of  the  trip  seems  strangely  ([uiet  by 
contrast  with  that  which  preceded  it,  and  re- 
stores the  pulse-beats  to  their  normal  measure 
before  the  next  wild  plunge  which  inckules  the 
Coteau,  Cedars  and  Cascade  rapids,  a  descent 
of  eleven  miles.  Again  comes  the  contrast  of  foam  and  fury  with  tranquility,  as  Lake 
St.  Louis  succeeds  the  Cascades.  This  lake  is  twelve  miles  long  and  half  as  many  in 
width,  and  here  the  well  informed  tourist  indulges  in  excited  anticipation  of  the 
grand  Ji/ia/g  in  the  descent  of  the  Lachine,  the  last  and  most  dangerous  of  the  rapids. 
Neither  language  nor  painter's  brush,  nor  both,  can  adequately  portray  the  beauty 
and  magnificence  of  this  scene.     The  tempestuous  sea,  the  world's  greatest  cataract, 


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THE  THOUSAND   ISLANDS. 


and  the  immovable  mountains  seem  to  have  lent  to  it  a  measure  of  their  grandeur  in 
form  and  sound,  and  to  be  engaged  with  each  other  in  a  mighty  and  never  ending 
struggle  for  overmastering  power.  Waves  dash  high  in  air  as  they  meet  steadfast 
opposition  from  rock-bound  shores  or  treacherous  reefs,  or  are  hurled  back  to  meet 
the  irresistible  force  of  the  on-rushing  flood.  The  swirl  of  the  eddies  and  the  plunge 
down  the  aljrujit  declines  over  the   jagged  rocks,  lash  the  waters  into  whitest  foam. 


HI'NNINO   THE   RAPIDS. 


The  sensation  experienced  on  board  the  steamer  is  the  most  thrilling  that  can  be 
imagined.  The  immense  vessel  suddenly  shoots  forward  at  such  a  rate  of  speed  that 
steam  power  is  useless.  Then  there  is  a  sudden  sinking.  Those  experienced  in  sea 
and  lake  voyages  naturally  expect  that  the  boat  will  rise  again,  but  it  does  not. 
Again  it  rushes  forward  and  again  the  sinking  is  felt,  as  if  the  vessel  had  ceased  the 
terrific  struggle  and  were  seeking  rest  on  the  rocky  bottom.  And  so  it  goes  on  and 
on,  through  a  channel  narrow  and  tortuous,  seemingly  courting  destruction  and  yet 
surely  escaping  it  by  the  skill  of  experienced  pilots,  until  the  river  broadens  and 
calms  itself  as  it  sweeps  under  the  Victoria  bridge  to  the  wharVes  of  Montreal. 


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NOTED  ISLANDS  AND  POINTS. 


ON  succeeding  pages  of  this  booic  is  a  list  of  the  inhabited  islands  and  points,  all  of 
which  will  be  found  to  have  some  measure  of  attraction  to  the  sight-seer.  lUit 
some  of  them,  by  reason  of  their  exceptional  location,  or  the  beauty  and  costliness 
of  the  dwellings  built  upon  them,  or  from  the  fame  of  their  owners,  receive  special 
attention  from  the  visitor  on  a  tour  of  the  river 


THE    LARGEST    ISLAND. 

Wolfe  Island  is  the  largest  of  the  entire  group,  and  is  wholly  in  Canadian  terri- 
ory.  It  stands  like  a  sentinel,  near  the  border  line,  at  the  foot  of  Lake  Ontario.  It 
s  twenty-one  miles  long  and  fibout  seven  miles  in  width.     Its  principal  settlement  is 


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THE  THOUSAND   ISLANDS. 


Marysville,  a  village  of  several  hundred  inliabitants.  Its  soil  is  very  fertile,  as  is 
evidenced  by  its  many  dairy  farms,  its  verdant  meadows  and  flourishing  grain  fields 
and  gardens.  A  canal  has  been  dug  through  the  island  to  shorten  the  route  between 
Cape  Vincent  and  Kingston, 

WELI.S    ISLAND. 

Wells  Island  is  one  of  the  most  interesting.  Its  length  is  about  eight  miles  and 
its  width  ranges  from  a  few  yards  to  four  miles.  The  Thousand  Island  I'ark  is  at  its 
head  and  Westminster  Park  is  at  its  foot,  opposite  Alexandria  I5ay.  It  is  densely 
wooded  in  some  parts  and  others  have  long  been  used  for  profitable  farming. 


BONNIE     CASTLE. 

Directly  a'^ross  the  bay  from  The  Crossmon,  on  one  of  the  most  sightly  points 
on  the  river,  is  the  stately  home  of  the  family  of  the  late  Dr.  J.  G.  Holland,  built 
during  the  lifetime  of  the  famous  literateur,  according  to  his  own  ideas  of  elegance 
and  comfort,  and  named  from  one  of  his  most  popular  stories,  "  Bonnie  Castle." 
Dr.  Holland  was  an  earnest  admirer  of  the  St.  Lawrence  and  its  islands,  and  during 
the  last  few  years  of  his  life  he  spent  the  larger  part  of  every  summer  here. 

Pullman's  "castle  rest." 
Among  the   first  of  the   wealthy  and  famous  men   who  came  to  the  islands  to 
establish  their  summer   homes  was  George  M.  Pullman,  the  well-known   palace  car 
magnate.     He  purchased  one  of  the  handsomest  islands,  just  above  Alexandria  Bay, 


TJIK  THOUSAND   ISLANDS. 


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and  built  an  unpretentious  frame  dwelling,  which  was  made  famous  by  the  visit  of 
Gen.  Cirant,  as  the  guest  of  its  owner  in  1872.  A  magnificent  castle,  built  of  rough 
stone,  after  the  (lernian  fortress  style,  and  rising  to  the  height  of  five  stories,  has 
taken  the  place  of  the  first  strut    ire,  but  the  historic  room  occupied  by  the  great 

hero  is  preserved 
as  a  relic  within 
its  walls.  After 
the  new  struc- 
ture was  com- 
pleted, in  1888, 
Mr.  I'ullman pre- 
sented it  to  his 
aged  mother  and 
it  was  named 
"Castle  Rest." 
It  has  been  the 
scene  of  many 
happy  family  re- 
unions,and  is  oc- 
cupied through- 
out every  season. 


CARLETON 

ISLAND. 

Historic  Carle- 
ton    Island    is   a 
most   interesting 
place,  aside  from 
its  ruins  and  traditions,  because  of  its 
situation  near  the  source   of  the    St. 
Lawrence.     A  considerable  number  of 
sojourners  have  visit'^d  it  in  the  past, 
and  its  future  is  very  bright. 

IMPERIAL. 

Directly   across   the   channel    from 

The   Crossmon,    a   few    years   ago,   a 

large  rock  protruded  above  the  river's 

cATCHiNo  MuscALLONOE.  surface,     and    a    clump    of     scraggy 

bushes  found  a  meagre  growth  in  some  soil  that  had  lodged  there.      Its  location, 

however,  was  so  desirable  that  it  found  a  purchaser,  who  made  a  very  pretty  island 


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THK   THOUSAND    ISLANDS. 


by  filling  in  with  rocks  and  dirt,  and  erecting  walls  to  keep  it  intact.  Its  handsom- 
cottage  and  grounds,  adorned  by  shade  trees  and  lawn,  furnish  an  illustration  of  how 
even  a  barren  rock  may  be  beautified  in  this  region.  Its  name  is  Isle  Imperial,  and 
its  owner  is  (lilberi  S.  Rafferty,  of  Pittsburg,  Pa. 


INOLRSIUE  COTTAOK. 


"  Ingleside  Cottage,"  one  of  the  most  beautifully  located  island  residences  oc 
the  magnificent  river,  is  owned  by  Mrs.  G.  R.  Marsh,  of  Chicago.  It  occupies  tlie 
eastern  and  southern  portion  of  Cherry  Island,  comprising  about  four  acres  of  rocky 
heights  and  mossy  dells,  and  from  its  lovely  piazza  and  high  points  of  observatior 
commands  an  unrivaled  view  of  the  vast  expanse  miles  down  the  river.  Being  siti; 
ated  on  the  island  nearest  Alexandria  Bay  and  the  New  York  shore,  it  is  renders 
more  charming  by  its  near  proximity  to  this  village  of  justly  renowned  summer  hotel 
and  most  hospitable  attentions.  The  residence  occupies  the  site  of  the  first  cottag 
erected  on  any  of  the  river  islands  in  that  vicinity  for  river  tourists  and  was  occupies) 
the  first  season  by  Mrs.  E.  C.  Pullman,  the  revered  mother  of  George  M.  Pullman 


TIIK    THOUSAND    ISLANPS. 


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and  her  family  more  than  a  (juartcr  of  a  century  ago.  Indeed,  the  tiny  cottage  now 
forms  the  rear  part  of  the  present  Ingleside,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Marsh  having  refused 
a  large  price  for  it  to  be  removed  from  its  original  site.  Since  its  erection  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Marsh,  with  their  son  and  family,  have  ever  found  pleasure  in  giving  to  many 
friends  the  earnest  welcome  to  their  sweet,  sweet  home,  and  contributing  to  the 
various  interests  of  river  enjoyment. 

A    TRIPLET    GK(}UP. 

Sport,  Little  Lehigh  and    Idlewild   islands  form  a  pretty   group  a  short  distance 
down  the  river  from  the  Bay.     Sport  is  owned  by   E.    P.    Wilbur,    Little  i,ehigh  by 


W.  A.  and  R.  H.  Wilbur,  of  Bethlehem,  Pa.,  and  Idlewild  by  Mrs.  R.  H.  Kggleston, 
of  New  York.  Large  parties  gather  here  yearly,  as  guests  of  the  owners.  'J"he 
illuminations  on  Sport  and  Little  Lehigh  islands  are  especially  elaborate. 

WEST    POINT. 

Just  across  a  narrow  side  channel  from  Pullman's  island  is  West  Point,  owned  by 
Mr.  W.  C.  Browning,  of  New  York.  Upon  a  high  bluff,  which  is  a  miniature  like- 
ness of  the  noted  place  for  which  the  spot  is  named,  Mr.  Browning  has  a  summer 
home  unsurpassed  by  any  on  the  river. 

FRIENDLY. 

E.  W.  Dewey,  of  New  York,  is  the  owner  of  Friendly  Island,  which  attracts 
attention,  both  because  of  its  natural  beauty  and  the  grand  residence  which  adorns 
it.     Some  views  of  it  appear  on  another  page. 


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TIIK    THOUSAND   ISLANDS. 


NOBBY. 
Another   place   where    wealth    has   been  lavished  and   artistic   skill   has   been 
employed  is  Nobby  Island,  owned  by  H.  K.  Heath,  of  Brooklyn.      Mr.  Heath  is  also 
owner  of  the  Devil's  Oven. 

ST.     KI.MO. 

In  the  same  vicinity  with  Friendly  and  Nobby  islands  is  St  Klmo,  the  property 
of  Nathaniel  W.  Hunt,  of  Brooklyn.  Its  grounds  and  cottage  attract  the  tourist's 
attention. 

ST.    JOHN. 

Judge  Charles  Donohue,  of  New  York,  owns  what  was  formerly  Plantagenet 
Island,  and  which  he  has  renamed  St.  John.  It  commands  a  fine  view  of  the  river 
and  Alexandria  Bay. 

FAIRYLAND. 

Charles  H.  and  William  B.  Hayden,  of  Columbus,  O.,  with  their  families,  are 
among  the  first  arrivals  at  the  river  every  year.  Their  large  island,  in  the  improve- 
ment of  which  they  have  been  unmindful  of  expense,  is  worthy  of  the  name  they 
have  given  it — "Fairyland." 


These  are  but  a  few  of  the  more  costly  and  commodious  summer  residences  at 
the  river,  and  there  are  very  many  desirable  islands  and  points  still  unoccupied. 


GEMS  I'ROM  TRAVELERS'  WRITINGS. 


(*)Y0U("H  has  been  written  in  description  of  the  Thousand  Islands  by  travelers  who 
J  ♦       have  had  such  a  wide  range  of  observation  that  their  testimony  is  of  the  highest 
value.      Brief  quotations  from  these  writings  are  presented  herewith,  arranged  accord- 
ing to  their  chronological  order: 

Ihaac  Wkli).  Jr.— 1709. 

The  scenery  presented  to  view,  in  uiuiinK  between  tiicse  Isltinds,  i.s  beautiful  in  tlie  hl^he.st  defj^rce. 
SomctimeH  in  pii8,sinir  tlirougli  ii  niirrow  straight,  you  And  yourself  in  a  biiNin,  land  locked  on  every 
side,  that  happens  to  have  no  eonununieation  witli  tiio  lake,  e.xeept  by  the  passage  through  which 
you  have  entered.  You  are  looking  about,  perhap.s,  for  an  outlet,  tliinklng  at  last  to  8<'e  some  little 
channel  widch  will  just  admit  your  bateau— when  suddenly  an  expanded  slieet  of  water  opens  upon 
you,  whose  boundary  is  the  horizon  alone.  Again  in  a  few  minutes  you  tlnd  yourself  land  locked, 
and  again  a  spacious  passage  as  suddenly  presents  itself;  at  other  times,  when  in  the  ndddle  of  one  of 
tliese  basins.  iK'lween  a  cluster  of  islands,  a  dozen  dillerent  channels,  like  so  ininy  noble  rivers,  meet 
tlie  eye,  perhajjs  eciually  unexpectedly,  and  on  each  side  the  islands  appear  gularly  retiritig  until 
they  sink  from  the  sight  iu  the  distance. 

Wm.  Darby,  Boundabv  Surveyor- 1818. 
The  world  can  present  but  few,  if  any,  regions  of  equal  extent  where  all  that  can  allure  the  eye 
and  gratify  the  mind  can  be  found  more  condensed  into  one  view. 

J.  IlowisoN— 1820. 
The  .scene  reminded  mo  of  the  beautiful  descriptions  of  the  Happy  Tslands  in  the  Visions  of 
Mlrzah,  and  I  thought  that  if  the  Thousand  Islands  lay  in  tlic  Bast,  some  cliaste  imaglnaiion  would 
propose  that  tliey  should  be  made  an  a.sylum  for  sulTering  humanity,  and  distributed  according  to  the 
respective  virtues  and  merits  of  those  who  deserved  tliem. 

Henhv  Tuoor— 1831. 

Nothing,  however,  can  exceed,  if  equal,  the  Thou.sand  Islands  of  the  St.  Lawrence.  Here  Nature 
has  wrapped  herself  in  all  the  witchery  of  her  silent  charms,  and  liere  her  lonely  and  sootlnng  beauty 
speaks  a  language  to  the  heart,  unfelt  by  the  proudest  works  of  man. 

Charles  Dickens— 1842. 

The  beauty  of  this  noble  stream  at  almost  any  point,  but  especially  in  the  commencement  of  this 
journey,  wliere  it  winds  its  way  among  the  Thousand  Islands,  can  hardly  be  imagined.  The  number 
and  constant  succession  of  these  islands,  all  green  and  richly  wooded ;  their  fluctuating  sizes,  some  so 
large  that  for  half  an  hour  together  one  among  them  will  appear  as  the  opposite  bank  of  the  river, 
and  some  so  small  that  they  are  mere  dimples  on  its  bosom — their  infinite  variety  of  shapes— and  th(! 
numl)erless  combinations  of  beautiful  forms  which  the  trees  growing  on  them  present — all  form  a 
picture  fraught  with  an  uncommon  interest  and  pleasure. 

Xavier  Marmier— 1850. 

There  is  probably  no  river  on  earth  that  has  heard  so  many  vows  of  love  as  the  St.  Lawrence; 
for  there  is  not  a  Canadian  boatman  that  has  ever  passed  up  or  down  the  river  without  repeating,  as 
the  blade  of  his  oar  dipped  into  the  stream,  and  as  it  arose,  the  national  refrain  : 

"II  y  a  longtemps  que  je  t'aime, 
Jamais  je  ne  t'oublierail  " 

"  Long  time  have  I  loved  thee, 
Ne'er  will  I  forget  thee." 

John  Sheridan  Hogan — 1855. 

It  is  impossible,  even  for  those  whose  habits  and  occupations  naturally  wean  them  from  the 
pleasures  derivable  from  such  scenery,  to  avoid  feelings  akin  to  poetry  while  winding  through  the 
Thousand  Islands.  You  feel,  indeed,  long  after  they  have  l)een  passed,  as  if  you  had  been  awakened 
out  of  a  blissful  dream.  Your  memory  brings  up  again  and  again  the  pictures  of  tlie  clusters  of  the 
little  islands  rising  out  of  the  clear  cold  water.  You  think  of  the  little  bays  and  winding  passages, 
embowered  in  trees;  and  recurring  to  the  din  and  dust  and  heat  and  strife  of  the  city  you  have  left  or 
the  city  you  are  going  to,  you  wish  in  your  heart  you  had  seen  more  of  nature,  and  less  of  business. 


43  THK    THOUSAND   I8LAN0H. 

Uev.  Jamkb  Dixon,  D.  D— 184H. 

We  at  ODM  got  Into  the  curn-iil  of  llic  St.  Liiwrciicf,  iiiid  I'oiiml  oiirHflvcH  in  the  nildHt  of,  I  nliould 
tliink.  llie  most  p«'rffct  fatry  Hccnc  in  th«  world-  lh«  TliKiiHiuid  iMluiids  The  diiy  wmh  cU-ar.  Ilir  Miin 
bright,  the  whxlMHoft  and  L'eniiii.  Could  anything  more  piTfi'dly  ninind  oru-  of  Paradise  than  thiw 
Hoene  ?  No  ndned  ciiMtii-H,  it  Is  triii!.  graced  ihiw  iNlandH;  no  risinK  tiirrrlH,  covered  with  Ivy,  numtled 
thcHo  HpotH  of  prindtivu  beauty;  no  baronial  traditiouH;  no  deH4-rted  liallH;  no  ban(|uetlnK  r(M)mH,  once 
the  Mcene  of  revelry,  of  love,  and  of  revenge,  wtjre  lu-re  ()|M!n  to  innpeetion.  All  wa-s  simple,  primeval-- 
Nature  (lothi'd  in  her  own  attire  of  leafy  loveliness.  Not  a  building,  not  a  cottage  was  seen.  No 
ascentling  smoke,  no  signs  of  human  life,  no  bleating  animals,  no  (ilouglnnan's  note,  no  stroke  of  the 
woodman's  a.KC.  no  lalMir  of  the  spade  or  hoe,  wer«(  anywhere  visible;  silence  and  rci)oHfl  reigned  in 
theHe  islands,  which  in  ancient  times  would  have  been  peopled,  in  the  imagination  of  poets,  with 
nymphs  and  goddesses,  without  Interrupting  sound,  except  the  whispers  of  the  wind.  Nature  lay 
undisturbed  In  her  own  soft  lied;  cradled  in  the  waters;  rocked  in  the  elements,  and  soothed  by  the 
rippdng  .stream  as  It  pa.s.sed  along.  This  simple,  primitive  slate  of  things  has  always  be«'n.  from  the 
time  when  (lod  spoke  Creation  into  existence;  or  <'ertalaly  from  the  period  when,  some  convulsion 
breaking  oil  these;  fragments  from  the  mainland,  He  stretched  out  Ills  hand  to  place  them  in  their 
present  position,  to  show  His  love  of  l)eauty,  an<l  teach  mankind  lessons  of  grateful  admiration, 

OiovANNA  Caitkm-ini-  -1808. 

The  St.  liawrence,  which  had  appeared  narrowed  for  some  distance  above  Ogdonsburg,  hero 
began  to  expand,  and  spread  Itself  out  Into  a  multitude  of  channels,  worn  through  the  oldest  of 
granites.  Some  of  the  islets  scarcely  arose  above  the  surface,  while  others  were  some  thirty  metres 
in  height,  ami  were  clothed  with  pines,  tirs.  blrche.s,  maples  and  beeches  of  moderate  sl/e,  but 
presenting  a  .scene  most  diversiHed  in  form,  and  constantly  changing  as  we  passed  alcmg.  To  me,  as 
1  was  most  anxiously  looKlng  for  .something  tliat  would  remind  mo  of  Italy,  a  part  of  tida  labyrinth 
presented  a  scene  not  uidlkc!  that  of  the  lagoons  of  V(!netla. 

As  darkness  came  on,  the  occasional  gleams  of  (julet  lamplight  from  the  windows  of  the  farm 
houses  along  the  shore,  or  sciattered  here  and  there  upon  the  islands,  or  the  vivid  splendor  of  u 
light  house,  would  cast  their  long  reflected  beams  upon  the  waters,  which  when  lightly  rippled  by 
the  approach  of  the  steamer,  appeared  like  serpents  of  tire,  swimming  towards  the  shore.  As  our 
colossal  steamer,  the  Ontario,  pres.sed  rapidly  forward  through  the  winding  channel  of  the  Islands, 
we  p  issed  a  little  island  where  a  party  of  tlshermen  had  built  a  tire  and  were  busy  preparing  a  supper 
from  the  proceeds  of  the  labors  of  tlie  day.  A  vessel,  with  its  long-spreading,  8(|uarc  sail,  lay  idly 
tloatlnj;  near  the  sliore.  .secured  to  the  trunk  of  an  aged  tlr,  while  the  dark  shadows  of  the  forest  cast 
a  gloom  over  the  spot,  reflecting  the  flames  that  appeared  to  conceal  rather  than  illundnate  the  scene, 
and  presenting  a  picture  that  no  painter  could  produce. 

Amid  these  scenes  of  light  in  the  darkness,  tli3  moon  alone  was  wanting  to  shed  its  crowning 
glory  over  the  Thousand  Islands. 

J.  II.  Stkhmins— 1878. 

To  me,  the  pleasures  of  this  magnificent  river  are  its  very  8(»lltudes,  Given  a  silent,  attentive 
oarsman,  a  light  iipple  upon  the  water,  a  gentle  breeze  upon  the  cheek,  turn  behind  an  island  away 
from  the  sight  j.nd  sound  of  the  thoroughfare,  with  the  blue  sky,  above,  the  clear  water  below,  and 
the  finest  scenery  in  the  world  upon  every  side.  Surely  now,  if  ever,  one  may  yield  himself  to  nature 
and  meet  his  own  soul  face  to  face.  Silence  is  a  blissful  companionship  her^,  and  there  can  be  no 
tediousness  of  solitude  to  him  who  ban  within  himself  resources  of  thought  and  dream— the  pleasure,s 
of  memory,  of  unagination,  of  dreamj'^  forgetfulness,  of  delightful  rest.  Never  in  even  the  poet's 
grandest  .song  was  the  grandeur  and  beauty  of  these  scenes  fully  expressed. 

Gkoroe  Lansing  Taylok,  I).  I).— 1878. 

It  is  one  of  the  most  densely  crowded  archipelagoes  in  the  world.  The  islands  range  from  the 
size  of  a  township  down  to  that  of  a  haystack,  Hut  a  very  large  number  of  them  are  habitable,  and 
many  have  been  long  Inhabited.  Yet  so  many  liave  remained  wild  that  the  prevailing  character  of 
the  whole  has  been  that  of  a  wilderness.  It  Is  precisely  that  fact  that  has  given  the  islands  their 
value  and  charm  in  modern  days.  It  is  this  that  has  made  them  the  chosen  and  delightful  retreat 
they  are,  and  has  brought  wealth  and  taste  hither  to  find  a  summer  refuge  sweeter  than  can  be  found 
at  any  of  the  old  and  crowded  resorts  of  extravagance  and  fashion.  It  is  this  that  has  caused  a 
modern  Venice,  gay  as  a  dream  of  a  fairy  land,  to  spring  up  here  on  every  hand  among  these  greeu 
solitudes. 


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Nkw  Youk  IIkrali)  CoRiiitm'oNnrnT— 187H. 

Tliu  vicinity  of  tliu  TiiouNiitui  lttliiii<lM  will  proltnbly  Im)  tlironxtMl.  hut  ii  million  of  peoph:  could 
le  Nwiillowcd  up  ill  llH  viiHt  solitinti's  willioiit  iiitt  rftTlii^  with  Hh  rnuteit  or  pletuturcH.  Iiitlii*iil<l 
IikIIiiii  (iiiV'M  ijiis  pari  of  the  St.  Liiwrfiici!  went  hy  the  imine  of  Muiiutoiiiio,  or  Unnleii  of  the  (Ireiil 
Spirit.  'I  lie  name  would  hiiU  tliu  Iwauty  Hiid  gunerul  trainiuility  of  the  rei;ion  Mtill.  IMctun^HqiieiieMH 
and  i-alm  lire  the  trnilHofthe  Hhores  and  iMlatidH,  and  the  climatii  helps  to  rvndur  them  unearthly 
paradise  for  sportsmen  and  seekerH  after  health  and  rent. 

Tick  Ddkk  or  AiKiviiic— 1870. 

It  is  worth  cnmsing  the  Atlantl<'  to  Hve  the  rapids  of  the  St.  I^awrence.  Hiieh  volumes  of  water 
rushing  and  foaming  in  billowHof  glorious  green  and  white,  can  he  seen  nowhere  in  tlie  old  world. 
They  speak  to  the  eye  of  the  distances  from  which  they  come;  of  the  Hocky  Mountains,  wliich  are 
their  farolT  watershed  in  the  west;  of  the  vast  intervening <()ntinent  which  they  have  drained;  of  the 
great  inland  seas  in  wliicli  they  have  been  stored  and  gathered.  1'liese  ra|iids  are  the  tinal  leaps  and 
bounds  l>y  which  tlie^  gain  at  last  the  level  of  the  oeeun,  and  the  liiHtory  of  their  triumphant  course 
seems,  um  it  were,  wrillen  on  their  face. 

"Pen  and  Sunlight  Bkktciikh" — 1891. 

Not  so  wide  as  the  Amazon,  nor  ho  long  as  the  Misissippi;  not  so  famous  for  historic  traditions 
as  the  Hudson,  nor  for  ruined  (lastles  as  the  lUiine,  yet  the  St.  Lawrence  is  more  attractive  to  the 
tourist  than  either,  and  sulfers  by  comparison  w  ith  neither  or  all  of  them.  As  the  channel  through 
which  all  of  the  waters  of  the  great  lakes  find  tlu^ir  way  to  the  ocean,  it  could  not  be  otherwise  than 
miijestic,  and  being  nuvigaiile  its  entire  lengtli,  it  presents  unusual  attractions  and  delightful  con- 
trasts to  tlie  voyager  who  takes  a  daylight  trip  among  its  charming  scenery. 

As  the  lake  begins  to  contract  to  a  river,  it  would  seem  as  though  the  land  disputed  its  onward 
progress,  and  in  the  struggle  for  supremacy  the  restless  current  has  broken  the  firm  earth  into  a 
thousand  fragments,  some  larger,  some  smaller,  which  vainly  endeavor  to  entangle  the  waters  in  their 
downward  course  to  the  sea. 

KiNdBTON  (Ont.)  WlIKl— 1891. 

There  are  two  famous  groups  of  islands  on  this  route,  known  as  "Tlic  Fairy  Isles"  and  "Summer 
Land."  which  slioiild  be  very  proud  of  their  ideal  beauty  and  stalely  shapes,  as  no  doubt  tliey  are. 
So  rich  are  they  in  leafy  verdure  and  freshnes-s  of  limb  and  branch  that  the  words  "Beauty — l)eauty 
still,"  are  ever  rising  to  the  beholder's  lips  as  thev  did  to  those  of  Warburton.  many  years  ago,  when 
he  passed  through  "the  mazes  of  the  Thousand  Islands,"  and  admired  "tlieir  beautiful  rellections  in 
the  mirror  of  tlic  calm,  blue  water,"  exclaiming,  "Beauty — beauty  still  !  "  All  the  islands  hereabouts 
are  of  this  character,  and  there  are  many,  spreading  their  fairy  loveliness  to  the  sun  and  winds  that 
give  them  life  and  motion,  dreamy  grace  and  poetic  l)eauty,  with  the  liberal  hand  of  nature  arranging 
and  rearranging  their  lovely  forms  at  will  continually. 


THE  RIVER  OF   DREAMS. 

[  From  Obbaldine  :     A  Souvenir  of  the  St.  Lawrence.] 

'Tis  the  river  of  dreams. 
You  may  float  in  your  boat  on  the  i)looni-t»ordered  streams. 
Where  its  islands  like  emeralds  matchless  are  set, 
And  forget  that  you  live,  and  as  quickly  forget 
That  they  die  in  that  world  you  have  left;  for  the  calm 
Of  content  is  within  you,  the  blessing  of  balm 
Is  upon  you  forever.     Mortality  sleeps 
While  you  dream,  an  Immortal :  some  mistiness  creeps 
Like  a  veil  of  forgetfulness  over  your  past. 
And  it  is  not.     Your  day  is  eternal,  to  last 
Without  darkness,  or  change,  or  the  shadow  of  dread. 
Blessed  isles,  where  today  and  tomorrow  are  wed 
In  such  fullness  of  bliss.     Blessed  river  that  smiles 
In  such  beauty  and  peace  by  the  beautiful  isles. 


NAMES  OF  ISLANDS  AND  POINTS. 


Tho  following  are  the  names  of  the  inhabited  islands  and  points,  beginning  in  order  at  Clayton, 
and  extending  below  Alexatidria  Bay  : 

Cement — (Point  Head  (irindstone  Island)  eighty  acres,  owned  by W.  P.  Ford,  Lafargcville,  N.  Y. 

Goose  Island— two  acres,  owned  by E.  S.  Hicks,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Hen  Island— one- quarter  acre,  owned  by W.  F.  Morgan,  New  York 

Davittb'  Island — one  quarter  acre,  owned  by H.  G.  Davitts,  New  York 

CoHAL  Isle— two  acres,  owned  by C.  Wolfe,  New  York 

Faik  View  Point — one  acre,  owned  by James  A.  Cheney,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

BoscoBEL  Island- one-half  acre,  owned  by (t.  L.  Hopkins,  Kansas 

Bluff  Island — twenty-live  acres,  owned  by  E,  R.  Washburn,  New  York 

Clinton's  No.  ]— fifteen  acres,  owned  by  N.  Seeley,  New  York 

Clinton's  No.  2— three  acres,  owned  by N.  Seeley,  New  York 

Pine  Island— five  acres,  owned  by J.  H.  Hamilton,  New  York 

Goveunor's- three  acres,  owned  by  Hon .  T.  G.  Alvord,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Calumet— three  acres,  owned  by Charles  G.  Emory,  New  York 

Long  Rock— one  acre,  owned  l)y \V.  F.  Wilson,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

Murray  Hill — twenty  acres,  owned  by Hon.  W.  F.  Porter,  W.  F.  Wilson,  Watertown; 

Hon.  Henry  Spicer,  Perch  Uivcr,  and  others. 

Gun  Island — one-half  acre,  owned  by II.  H.  Warner.   Ilrchester,  N.  Y. 

Etiieluidge— (Head  of  Roimd  Island),  owned  by Dr.  George  D.  Wheeden,  Syracuse,  N,  Y. 

Hays  Cottage — (Head  of  Round  Island),  owned  by Jacob  Hays,  New  York 

VanWaoenen  Cottage — (Head  of  Round  Island),  owned  by H.  VanWagenen,  Ne^.  York 

Belden  Cottage— (Head  of  Round  Island),  owned  by  Hon.  J.  J.  Belden,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Shady  Ledge— (Foot  of  Round  Island),  owned  by Frank  H.   I'aylor,  Philadelphia.  Pa. 

Brooklyn  Heights- (Foot  of  Round  Island),  owned  by  C.  A.  Johnson,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Little  Round  Island— five  acres,  owned  by Jno.  B.  Carss  and  Audrey  J.  Mooney 

Stewart,  or  Jeffees— ten  acies,  owned  by. . .  .E.  P.  Gardiner,  Syracuse,  N.  Y.;  John  Rogers 
and  Miss  Haskell,  Carthage,  N.  Y. ;  L.  J.  Burdette,  Otsego  Camp  Club;  Caleb 
Clark,  Cooperstown.  N.  Y.;  Miss  E.  M.  Grlswold,  Adams,  N.  Y.;  Wesley  M.  Rich, 
Joseph  Sayles,  Rome,  N.  Y. ;  Reuben  Fuller,  Charles  Ellis,  Clayton,  N.  Y.;  N.  D. 
Terrill,  Mrs.  L.  Dale,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

Two  IN  Eel  Bay — two  acres,  owned  by 1  )r.  L.  Sargent,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

Wiiortleherry  Island — two  acres,  pwiied  by Mr.s.  Etta  Stillwell,  New  York 

Little  Whortleberry  Island— half  acre,  owned  by. .  .Mrs.  Lena  E.  B.  Brown,  Wilberham,  Mass. 

Hub  Island— one  acre,  owned  by George  W.  Best,  Oswego,  N.  Y. 

One  Tree  Island— half  acre,  owned  by Rev.  JlattLson  W.  Chase,  Ogdensburg,  N.  Y. 

Maple  Island — ten  acres,  owned  by Joseph  Atwell,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Twin — one  acre,  owned  by I.  L.  Huntington.  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

Watch — one  acre,  owned  by Mrs.  Elizabeth  Skinner,  New  York 

Isle  Helena— one  acre,  owned  by Mrs.  Helen  S.  Taylor,  New  York 

Occident  and  Orient— three  acres,  owned  by E.  W.  Washburn.  New  York 


46  NAMES    OV   ISLANDS    AND    POINTS. 

Isle  of  Pinks— two  acres,  owned  by  McCortl,  New  York 

Fkkdkkuk— two  acres,  owned  by .  .C.  L.  Frederick,  Carthage,  N.  Y. 

Vandkhhii.t  Ihi.ano— tliree  acres,  owned  by J.  B.  Hamilton,  New  York 

Hay  Side — one  acre,  owned  by H.  F.  Mosher,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

JjATTimkk  Island— one  acre,  owned  by.    . .     Dr.  Cliarles  E.  Lattimer,  New  York 

RiVEnsiDE— (Mainland),  owned  by James  0.  Lee,  Gouverneur,  N.  Y. 

Killien'b  Point— (Mainland),  one  acre,  owned  by Killien,  Lockport,  N.  Y. 

Holloway's  Point— (Mainland),  one  acre,  owned  by         Nathan  Ilolloway,  Omar,  N.  Y. 

FiBiiEu's  Landing- (Mainland),  two  acres,  owned  by. .  .Mrs.  11.  Gurnee.  3Iiss  Newton,  Omar,  N   Y. 

Island  Home— one  acre,  owned  by  Mrs.  S.  D.  Mungerford,  Adams,  N.  Y. 

II AKMONY— one  fourtli  acre,  owned  by Mrs.  Celia  Berger,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Waving  Bkanciies— (Wells  Island),  owned  by D.  C.  Graham,  Stone  Mills,  N.  Y  ;  A.  Snell, 

Lafargeville,  N.  Y. ;  J.  Petrie,  Watertown,  N.  Y.;  Jerome  B.  Loucks,  Lafargeville, 
N.  Y.;  Isaac  Mitchell,  L.  Hughes,  Stone  Mills,  N,  Y.;  L.  Ainsworth,  F.  Smith, 
H.  S.  Tolles,  Ira  Traver,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

Bonnie  Eyrie- (Wells  Island),  owned  by Mr.  Peck,  Boonville,  N.  Y. 

Feun  Cliff— (Wells  Island),  seven  lots,  owned  by Drs.  J.  S.  and  C.  E.  Lattimer,  New  York 

Goose  Island- quarter  acre,  owned  by Mrs   Lottie  Simonds,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

Bay  View— owned  l)y     C.  S.  Lyman,  Westmoreland,  N.  V. 

Jolly  Oaks- (Wells  Island),  two  acres,  owned  by. .  .Prof.  A.  II.  Brown,  Dr.  N.  I).  Ferguson, 
John  Norton,  O.  T.  Green,  Carthage,  N.  Y.;  Hon.  W.  W.  Buttertield,  Red- 
wood, N.  Y. 

Peel  Island- two  acres,  owned  by  Mrs.  Sarah  P.  Lake,  Mrs.  Jane  E.  Tomlinson,  and 

Miss  Maggie  Parker,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

Island  Kate— one  acre,  owned  by Mrs.  Kate  Tomlinson,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

JoBEi'iiiNE— two  acres,  owned  by Mrs.  Emma  Keuyon,  Watertown.  N.  Y. 

Calumet — one-half  acre,  owned  by Oliver  Green,  Boston,  Mass. 

Point  Vivian— (Mainland),  ten  acres,  owned  by  . .  Hezot  Tozer,  J.  J.  Kinney,  E.  ().  Hunger- 
ford,  George  Ivers,  Evs'as  Mills,  N.  Y.,  and  others. 

LiNDEu'." — one  acre,  owned  by John  Linder,  Utica,  N.  Y. 

Island  Royal—ouc  acre,  owned  by Royal  E.  Deane,  New  York 

Cedau— one  acre,  owned  by J.  M.  Curtis,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Wild  Rose— one  acre,  owned  by Hon.  W.  G.  Rose,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Gypsy  Island- two  acres,  owned  by J.  M.  Curtis,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Allegheny  Point— (Mainland),  two  acres,  owned  by J.  S.  Laney,  Clleveland,  Ohio 

Photo— two  acres,  owned  l)y  II.  R.  Heath,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Kepler's  Point — three  acres,  owned  by.  F.  Ritter,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Kepler's  Point — two  acres,  owned  by J.  W.  Jackson,  Plaintield,  N.  J. 

Belle  Island- quarter  acre,  owned  by  Rev.  Walter  Ayrault,  Geneva,  N.  Y. 

Seven  Isles — five  acres,  owned  by Hon.  Bradley  Winslow,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

Louisiana  Point— (Wells  Island),  tliree  acres,  owned  by Hon.  I).  C.  LaBatt.  New  Orleans,  La. 

Quartette  Iseand— quarter  acre,  owned  by Mrs.  Wm.  Egan,  Chicago,  111. 

Shady  Covert — one  acre,  owned  by Hon.  John  C.  Covert,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Hill  Crest- (Wells  Island),  one  acre,  owned  by Gen.  I.  H.  Shields,  Washington,  D.  C. 

AvEYLON — one  acre,  owned  by Mrs.  E.  D.  Beera,  Wiishington,  D.  C. 

Beera— half  acre,  owned  by   Mrs.  E.  I).  Beera,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Bella  Vista  Lodge — (Mainland),  Ave  acres,  owned  by.    William  Chisholm,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Nemah-uin— two  acres,  owned  by James  H.  Oliphant,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 


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NAMES   OF   ISLANDS    AND    POINTS.  47 

CoMFOiiT— two  acres,  owned  by A.  E.  Clark,  (Jhlcago,  111. 

Wakner  Island— one  acre,  owned  by II.  II.  Warner,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

Minium— owned  by ]{ev.  W.  W.  Walsh,  Medina,  N.  V. 

Little  Gem- owned  by Mrs.  Fred  W.  Thomson,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

Island  Gbacik— owned  by J.  S.  Laney,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Wau  Winet— one-half  acre,  owned  by C.  E.  Hill,  Chicago,  111. 

Cuba — one  acre,  owned  by M.  Chaunccy,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Devil's  Oven— one  acre,  owned  by H.  R.  Heath,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Sunnyside— (Cherry  Island),  five  acres,  owned  by Rev.  George  II.  Rockwell,  N.  Y. 

Stuvvesant  LomJE— (Cherry  Island),  four  acres,  owned  l>y James  E.  Easton,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Melhose  LoD.iE— (Cherry  Island),  nine  acres,  owned  by A.  B.  Pullman,  Chicago,  111. 

Ingleside- (Cherry  Island),  owned  by Mrs.  G.  B.  Marsh,  Chicago,  111. 

Safe  Point— (Wells  Island),  four  acres,  owned  by II.  H.  Warner,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

CuAia  Side— (Wells  Island),  owned  by H.  A.  Laughlin,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 

West  Point— (Wells  Island),  seven  acres,  owned  by W.  C.  Browning,  New  York 

Palisade  Point— (Wells  Island),  five  acres,  owned  by Jlrs.  A.  C.  Beckwith,  Utica,  N.  Y. 

I'uLi  MAN— three  acre*,  owned  l)y George  M.  Pullman,  Chicago,  111. 

NoiJHY — three  acres,  owned  by H.  R.  Heath,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Little  Angel— one-eighth  acre,  owned  by W.  A.  Angell,  Chicago,  111. 

Welcome- three  acres  owned  by Hon.  S.  G.  Pope,  Ogdensburg,  N.  Y. 

Fkiendly — three  acres,  owned  by E.  W.  Dewey,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Linlithgow — one-fourth  acre,  owned  by Mrs.  R.  A.  Livingston,  New  York 

Flokencb: — two  acres,  owned  by U.S.  Chandler,  New  Y'ork 

St.  Elmo  -three  acres,  owned  by Nathaniel  W.  Hunt,  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Felseneck- (Wells  Island),  owned  by Prof.  A.  G.  Hopkins,  Clinton,  N.  Y'. 

Point  Lookout-  (Wells  Island),  one  acre,  owned  by Miss  L.  J.  Bullock,  Adams,  N.  Y. 

Edgewood  Paiik— (Mainland),  thirty  acres,  owned  by J.  P.  Lamson,  Cleveland,  Ohio 

Edoewood— (Point  Mainland),  one  acre,  owned  by G.  C.  Martin,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

West  View — (Point  Mainland),  one  acre,  owned  by Hon.  S.  G.  Pope,  Ogdensburg,  N.  Y. 

ViLULA — (Point  Mainland),  half  acre,  owned  by  Capt.  F.  Dana,  Alexandria  Bay,  N.  Y. 

Nut  Shell — (Point  Mainland),  five  acres,  owned  by.  .Mrs.  C.  W.  Cro.ssmon,  Alexandria  Bay,  N.  Y. 

Isle  Imperial — one  acre,  owned  by Gilbert  S.  Raflerty,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 

Hub  Clark  Island- quarter  acre,  owned  by Will  Clark,  Jersey  City,  N.  J. 

Fern— one  acre,  owned  by Mrs.  J.  Winslow,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

Hart's — five  acres,  owned  by Hon.  E.  K.  Hart,  Albion,  N.  Y. 

Deshler- fifteen  acres,  owned  by W.  G.  Deshler,  Columbus,  Ohio 

Xetts— one  acre,  owned  by William  B.  Ilayden,  Columbus,  Ohio 

Bonnie  Castle — (Point  Mainland),  fifteen  acres,  owned  l^y  Mrs  J.  G.  Holland,  New  York 

Crescent  Cottages- (Mainland),  ten  acres,  owned  by Mrs.  J.  K.  Howe,  Troy,  N.  Y. 

Point  Marguerite — (Mainland),  thirty  acres,  owned  by  Mrs.  E.  Anthony,  New  York 

The  Ledges — (Mainland),  fifteen  acres,  owned  by Mrs.  Sara  E.  K.  Hudson,  New  Y\)rk 

Long  Branch — (Point  Mainland),  ten  acres,  owned  by. Mrs.  C.  E.  Clarke.  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

Sun-Dew  Island- one  acre,  owned  by Charles  M.  Slamm,  Paymaster  U.  S.  Navy 

Manhattan— five  acres,{owned  by J.  L.  Hasbrouck  and  Hon.  J.  C.  Spencer,  New  York 

St.  John — six  acres,  owned  by Hon.  Charles  Donohue,  New  York 

Maple — six  acres,  owned  by J.  L.  Hasbrouck,  New  York 

Fairy  Land— twenty  acres,  owned  by. .  .Charles  H.  Hayden  and  William  B.  Hayden,  Cohimbus,  O. 
Little  Fraud— one-half  acre,  owned  by R.  Pease,  Geneva,  N.  Y. 


48  NAMES  OF   ISLANDS    AND    POINTS. 

Pike  Island— one  acre,  owned  by Frank  F.  Dickinson,  New  York 

HidiENOT — two  acres,  owned  by  Levi  Ilasbrouck,  Ogdensburp,  N.  Y. 

Antoine — one-fourth  acre,  owned  by Misses  Surah  and  Georgie  Walton,  Alexandria  Bay,  N.  Y. 

Rksout — three  acres,  owned  by W.  G.  Lewis,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 

Deek — forty  acres,  owned  by Douglas  Miller,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Island  Mauy— two  acres,  owned  by . .  William  L.  Palmer,  Carthage,  Dakota 

Lotus  Land— seven  acres,  owned  by G.  H.  Robinson,  New  York 

Idlewild— four  acres,  owned  by Mrs.  11.  H.  Eggleston,  New  York 

Little  LEnioii— one  acre,  owned  by W.  A.  and  R.  H.  Wilbur,  Bethlehem,  Pa. 

SroiiT— four  acres,  owned  by E.  P.  Wilbur,  Bethlehem,  Pa. 

SuNNYsiDE— two  acres,  owned  by W.  Stevensen,  Sayre,  Pa. 

Summer  Land — ten  acres,  owned  by  the  "Summer  Land  Assocfation,"  composed  of  the  follow- 
ing members:  Rev.  Asa  Saxe,  D.D.,  Francis  M.  McFarlin,  James  Sargent,  Emory 
B  Chase,  Leon  E.  Brace,  Isaiah  F.  Force,  Henry  C.  Wisner,  Lewis  P.  Ross,  Charles 
W.  Gray,  Geo.  A.  Newell,  Henry  O.  Hall,  Joseph  A.  Stud  and  Frank  W.  Hawley, 
of  Rochester,  N.  Y.;  Rev.  Almon,  Gunnison,  D.  I).,  and  Frank  Sperry,  of 
Brooklyn;  Rev.  Richmond  Fisk,  Alfred  Underbill  and  Horace  Bronson,  of 
Syracuse,  N.  Y. 

AucADiA  AND  Ina — flvc  acrcs,  owned  by S.  A.  Briggs,  New  York 

Si'UYTEN  DuYVEL — One  acre,  owned  by Alice  P.  Sargent,  New  York 

Douglas — five  acres,  owned  by Douglas  Miller,  New  Haven,  Conn. 

Kit  Grafton — one-half  acre,  owned  by Mrs,  S.  L.  George,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

Lookout — two  acres,  owned  by Thomas  H.  Borden,  New  York 

Ella — one-fourth  acre,  owned  by R.  E.  Ilungerford,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

Little  Charm — on'^,  eighth  acre,  owned  by Jlrs.  F.  W.  Barker,  Alexandria  Bay,  N.  Y. 

Excblsiou  Groui* — five  acres,  owned  by C.  S.  Goodwin,  New  York 

Elephant  Rock— one  eighth  acre,  owned  by T.  C.  Chittenden,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

SuNREAM  Group — one  acre,  owned  by Odd  Fellows,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

Alice — two  acres,  owned  by Col.  A.  J.  Casse,  New  York 

Schooner — six  acres,  owned  by J.  Norman  Whitehouse,  New  York 

Birch — seven  acres,  owned  by W.  J.  Lewis,  Pittsburg.  Pa. 

Dinolespeil— four  acres,  owned  by Joseph  Babcock,  Alexandria  Bay,  N.  Y. 

Ours — three  acres,  owned  by Mrs.  M.  Carter,  Poughkeepsie,  N.  Y. 

Lone  Pine  Island— one  acre  owned  by.  .Wm.  M.  Comstock  and  Walter  Rulison,  Evans  Mills,  N.  Y. 

Helen's  Island— owned  by Mrs.  O.  G.  Staples,  Washington,  D.  C. 

Ron  Roy — two  acres,  owned  by Mrs.  A.  H.  Greenawalt,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 

Little  Delioht — two  acres,  owned  by Louis  W.  Morrison,  New  York 

Cloud  Rest— four  acres,  owned  by Mrs.  A.  II.  Greenawalt,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 

Chillon  Island — four  acres,  owned  by  . .   Mrs.  A.  H.  Greenawalt,  Pittsburg,  Pa. 

Lily's  Island — quarter  acre,  owned  by Miss  L.  B.  H.  Morrison,  Erie,  Pa. 

Berkshire — twenty  acres,  owned  by  Hon.  S.  G.  Pope,  Ogdensburg,  N.  Y. 

Wyanoke— owned  by C.  B.  Orcutt,  Elizabeth,  N.  J. 

Dark — owned  by W.  H.  Harrison,  Georgia 

Whitney— owned  by Colden  Rhind,  Georgia 


ROUTES  TO   THE   BAY. 


Leave  New  York  (Grand  Central  depot)  by  N.  Y.  C.  &  H.  R.  R.  R.,  through  sleeoing  car  over 
R.  W.  &  O.  R.  R.  via  Utica  to  Clayton,  where  steamers  for  Alexandria  Bay  connect  with  all  trains. 

Or,  you  can  leave  the  Central  at  Utica,  and  take  the  cars  on  R.  W.  &  ().  R.  R.,  which  will  take 
you,  without  change  of  cars,  to  Clayton,  in  four  and  a  half  hours,  twelve  miles  frojn  Alexandria 
Ray,  where  a  steamer  will  be  found  which  will  complete  the  journey  in  one  hour. 

Leave  the  New  York  Central  at  Rome,  and  enter  the  palace  cars  of  the  Rome,  Watertown  ik 
Ogdensburg  railroad.  A  few  hours'  ride  on  these  will  bring  you  to  Cape  Vincent,  thirty  miles  from 
Alexandria  Bay,  where  steamers  run  to  and  fro  twice  a  day,  conneoting  closely  with  the  trains. 

Take  the  West  Shore  route  via  Utica  in  connection  with  the  R.  W.  A:  ().  R.  R.,  or  via  Syracuse 
in  connection  with  the  Rome,  Watertown  &  Ogdensburg  R.  R. 

Or,  if  you  please,  take  the  other  branch  at  Watertown,  and  ride  through  a  picturesque  country 
to  Ogdensburg  (six  hours  from  Rome),  and  there  take  steamer  up  the  river  to  the  Bay— thirty-six 
miles. 

Or,  leave  the  Central  at  Syracuse  (which  shortens  the  distance  for  parties  from  the  west),  and 
take  the  Syracuse  Northern  to  Richland,  from  which  place  the  route  is  agam  on  the  R.  W.  &  O.  R.  R. 

Or,  startinir  from  Oswego  (to  which  city  is  a  railroad  from  Syracuse,  and  lines  of  steamers  from 
all  the  principal  points  of  the  great  lakes,  some  of  which  go  to  the  Bay),  a  branch  of  the  R.  W.  &  O. 
connects  with  the  main  road  to  Richland. 

Or,  if  from  the  east,  you  take  the  Delaware  »fc  Hudson  at  Troy  or  Albany,  going  through 
Saratoga  and  along  the  west  shore  of  Lake  Champlain  to  Rouse's  Point,  there  taking  the  Ogdens- 
burg &  Lake  Champlain  R.  R.  to  Ogdensburg,  having  a  delightful  sail  from  Ogdensburg  by  steamer 
to  Alexandria  Bay 

Or.  leaving  Albany  or  Troy  via  D.  &  H.  C.  Co,,  taking  steamers  through  Lakes  George  and 
Champlain  (the  most  delightful  of  all)  to  Plattsburg,  U.  &  II.  to  Rouse's  Point,  O,  &  L.  C.  and 
steamer  to  Alexandria  Bay,  making  one  of  the  best  trips  in  this  country. 

Or,  from  Chicago  and  the  west,  take  the  Limited  Express  via  Chicago  &  Grand  Trunk  R.  R.  at 
3:35  V.  M.  daily,  with  Pullman  sleepers,  arriving  at  Gananoque  Junction  at  3  i'.  m.  next  day,  con- 
necting with  1000  Island  Railway  and  steamer  for  Alexandria  Bay,  arriving  in  time  for  supper. 
Only  twenty-flve  hours  from  Chicago  to  Alexandria  Bay.     The  "boss  route." 

Or,  take  Atlantic  Express  at  8:15  i*.  >r.  daily,  arriving  at  Kingston  next  day  at  2  a.  m.  (except 
Sundays).  Pullman  sleeper  runs  direct  to  Kingston  wharf,  and  lies  over  to  enable  passengers  to 
have  a  full  night's  rest,  connecting  at  5  \  m.  with  steamers  of  the  Richelieu  &  Ontario  Navigation 
Co.  for  Alexandria  Bay  and  Montreal.     (See  map  and  advertisement.) 

Or,  from  Portland,  Old  Orchard  Beach.  Montreal  or  Quebec  and  Maine  resorts,  take  the  Grand 
Trunk  R.  R.  to  Brockville,  Gananoque  or  Kingston,  and  steamers  from  those  points  to  Alexandria 
Bay,  making  one  of  the  most  delightful  trips  in  this  country. 

Or,  starting  from  New  York,  take  the  New  York,  Ontario  &  Western  R.  R.  from  West  42d 
street,  Cortlandt  or  Debrosses  street  ferries,  and  enter  the  through  Pullman  buffet  sleeping  cars  for 
Cape  Vincent.     (Tliis  is  the  only  route  from  New  York  running  Pullman  sleepers  to  the  islands.) 

At  Cape  Vincent  the  new  steamer  St.  Lawrence  makes  close  connection  with  the  trains,  running 
thirty  miles  down  the  river,  through  the  islands  to  the  Bay. 

Connections  with  the  Pennsylvania  R.  R.  by  this  route  are  made  in  Jersey  City,  in  Union  station, 
and  all  transfer  across  New  York  city  avoided. 

From  Portland,  Old  Orchard  Beach  and  Maine  resorts,  take  the  Portland  &  Ogdensburg  R.  R., 
passing  through  the  White  Moimtains  and  Vermont  via  Rouse's  Point  to  Ogdensburg,  and  steamer 
to  Alexandria  Bay.     This  is  the  shortest  line  from  the  White  Mountains  and  Maine. 

Visitors  from  the  east,  whose  route  is  by  the  Northern  railroad,  which  connects  with  the  Ver- 
mont Central,  will  take  a  steamer  at  Ogdensburg  for  the  rest  of  the  journey,  which  leaves  upon  the 
arrival  of  the  train,  reaching  the  Bay  in  time  for  supper. 

The  Royiil  Mail  line  of  steamers  run  from  Niagara  Falls  to  Montreal,  passing  down  the  St.  Law- 
rence by  daylight,  and  stopping  at  the  Bay. 

Since  the  completion  of  the  Lake  Ontario  Shore  railroad,  facilities  for  reaching  Alexandria  Bay 
from  the  west  have  improved.  Pirtjes  may  now  leave  N'agara  Falls  in  palace  cars  in  the  morning 
and  ride  in  them  to  Clayton,  and  tiicru  U'-Kilig  i).  ste/inier,  arrive  &t  ih^  Day  in  time  for  supper. 


HOTELS    ElSr    ROUTE. 


The  following  hotels,  among  others,  are  recommended  to  persons  en  route  to  the  Thousand 
Islands,  on  account  of  their  accommodations  and  management : 

Bagq's  Hotel,  Utica,  NY T.  R.  Proctor,  Proprietor 

Globb  IToTEii,  Syracuse,  N.  Y Dickinson  i^^  Austin,  Proprietors 

PowEHs  Hotel,  Rochester,  N.  Y liuck  &  Sanger,  Proprietors 

OsBUUNK  House,  Auburn,  N.  Y J.  E.  Allen,  Proprietor 

Seymouk  Hocse,  Ogdensbiirg,  N.  Y F.  J.  Tallman,  Proprietor 

Daniels' Hotel,  Prescott,  Ont ....        L.  H.  Daniels,  Proprietor 

Russell  House,  Ottawa,  Ont James  Guin,  Proprietor 

St.  Lawrence  Hall,  Montreal,  Que H.  Hogan,  Proprietor 

FociUET's  Hotel,  Plattsburg,  N.  Y A.  J.  Sweet,  Proprietor 

FEHdusoN  House,  Malone,  N.  Y S.  E.  Flanagan,  Proprietor 

WiNDSon  Hotel,  Montreal,  Que .George  W.  Sweet,  Manager 

Spring  House,  Richfield  Springs T.  R.  Proctor,  Proprietor 


DISTANCE    CARD. 


Niagara  to  Toronto 40  miles 

Toronto  to  Alexandria  Bay 167  " 

Oswego  to  Alexandria  Bay 100  " 

Clayton  to  Alexandria  Bay  12  " 

Alexandria  Bay  to  Montreal 169  " 

Watertown 28  " 

Utica 132  " 

Brockville 24  •' 

Portland  via  O.&L.C.400  " 

Boston  via  O.  &  L.  C.  442  '• 

Ogdensburg  36  " 

Montreal  to  Portland 278  " 

New  York 406  " 


Montreal  to  Albany 251  miles 

Troy 251  " 

Saratoga 212  " 

White  Mountains 201  " 

Ogdensburg  to  Ottawa 53  " 

Montreal  to  Quebec 280  " 

Ogdensburg  to^Malone ..  61  " 

"  Chateaugay  .     73  " 

"  Chateaugay  Chasm 74^  " 

Ralph's 88  " 

Saratoga 255  " 

Quebec  to  Roberval,  Lake  St.  John 190  " 


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IMPROVEMENTS. 


ON  Marcli  Mtli,  1801,  the  Rome,  Watortown  &  OKilengbiirK  R.  R.  waa  IcaHed  In  perpetuity  to  the  New  York 
Central  &  IIuiIhou  Klvor  R.  R„  "The  Workl'H  (Jreatest  and  Only  FoiirTrack  KallnuKl."  Tlie  lesHeo 
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trunk  line  standard  that  portion  of  the  newlyacipilred  property  patronized  by  the  Hummer  travel.  This  has  iK'en 
accomplished  by  hard  work  and  the  outlay  of  a  lar«e  sum  of  money- -nearly  one  million  dollars  in  permanent 
IniprovemenlH  and  btaterments,  notably  the  relaying  of  the  railway  of  the  Eastern  Division,  "The  Popular  HIack 
River  Koute,"  with  the  heaviest  steel  rails  used  north  of  the  Trunk  Ijines,  renewinK  and  reballastinK  its  road  bed, 
placing  new  ties  and  increaslnx  the  number  of  same  per  mile,  replacing  bridges  with  strong  new  ones  of  steel  and 
iron,  re-hallasting  and  improving  the  Syracuse  Northern  Line,  and  making  various  other  improvements  on  the 
R.  W.  &  O.  System,  all  of  which  enables  the  Company  to  inaugurate  a  new  era  In  Northern  New  Vork  passenger  train 
service.  The  Improvement  in  e(|ulpment  and  service  has  kept  pace  with  that  of  the  roadljed  and  railway,  t^tandard 
locomotives,  capable  of  hauling  the  heaviest  passenger  trains  at  high  speed,  have  been  added  to  the  motive  power. 
The  perfection  and  comfort  of  the  new  passenger  ecpiipment  will  elicit  the  admiration  of  our  patrons.  New  trains, 
the  counterpart  In  the  make-up  of  the  famous  Limited  trains  on  the  New  Vork  ('entral  A  Hudson  River  R.  R  ,  will 
run  on  fast  schedide  time  and  without  stops  from  Syracu.se  and  from  UtUa  to  Clayton  for  the  Thousand  Islands  the 
St  Lawrence  River  and  Canada  pleasure  travel,  also  to  Norwood  for  the  Adirondack  .Mountains,  the  White  Mountains, 
Maine  and  New  Kngland  sea  coast  travel. 

These  trains  will  be  perfectly  appointed,  solid  vestibuled  trains,  and  will  carry  new  Day  Coaches,  new  Wagner 
Sleeping  Cars,  Drawing-Room  Cars  and  Smoking  Cars.  All  cars  have  Wagner  Vestibules  and  are  moiuited  on  steel 
wheels.  In  carrying  out  the  policy  of  developing  summer  travel  by  offering  every  facilitv,  the  New  York  Cfutral  & 
Hudson  River  K.  R.  has  placed  in  service  new  fast  trains,  designated  on  the  New  Y'ork  Central  &  Hudson  River  R.  R. 
as  the  "Northern  New  York  Special"  and  the  "Adirondack  Moimtains  &  Portland  Special." 

Complete  trains  will  run  solid,  ot  the  speed  of  the  New  York  Central  Limited  trains,  and  with  the  etiuipment 
above  mentioned,  between  Suspension  Bridge.  Niagara  Falls,  Buffalo  and  Syracuse,  stopping  only  at  Rochester,  and 
between  New  York,  Albany  and  Utica.    No  extra  fare  will  be  charged  on  these  trains. 

Niagara  Kails  and  Thousand  Island  Club  Train  leaves  Niagara  Falls  about  NifjO  a.  h  ;  stops  only  at  Buffalo,  Roch- 
ester and  Syracuse.    Leaves  Syracuse  2:00  p.  m.;  arrives  at  Clayton,  ,5:20  p.  m.;  Alexandria  Hay,  7:00  p.  m. 

Westbound  leaves  Alexandria  Bay,  (Str.)  7:30  a.m.;  Clayton,  9:00  a.m.:  arrives  Syracuse  12:15  p.  M.;  Buffalo, 
4:15  p.  M.;  Niagara  Falls,  6:12  p.m.  A  superb  train  of  Wagner  Cars,  comprising  a  Vestibuled  Club  Car,  Vestibuled 
Buffet  Parlor  Car,  Vestibtded  Sleeping  Car,  Vestilnded  Day  Coaches. 

St.  Lawrence  Steamboat  Express  leaves  Niagara  Falls,  8:20  p.  m  ;  Buffalo.  9:15  p.  m  ;  New  York,  7:.'»  v.  .m.  Arrives 
Clayton,  5:80  A.  M.    Connects  with  R.  &  O.  Navigation  Co.  Steamer  for  Montreal,  etc.,  arriving  at  Alexandria  Bay, 

A.  M.    Empire  State  Express  leaves  New  York  H-.HO  a.  m.;  Utlca,  1:15  p.  m.;  arrives  Clayton,  4::W  p.  m  ;  Alexandria 

Bay,  5:45  p.  m. 

Fourteen  express  trains  arrive  at,  and  depart  from  Clayton  every  week  day.    Four  express  trains  on  Sundays. 

Send  Ten  Cents  postage  for  illustrated  book  of  '•Routes  and  Rates  for  Summer  Tours,"  the  handsomest  and  most 
complete  book  of  its  character  in  the  world.  For  tickets,  time  tables,  and  further  information  apply  to  ticket  agents 
of  N.  Y.  C.  &  H.  R.  R.  R.,  R.,  W.  ik  O.  R.  R.  and  connecting  lines,  or  correspond  with 

THEO.   BUTTERFIELD, 

GENERAL  PASSENGER  AGENT,  SYRACUSE,  N.  Y. 


THE-Wir^DJOR-nOTEL 

MONTREAL. 


KATtJ  i  $4.00  i  TO  i  $5.00  ^  PER  ^  DAT. 

Situated  in  the  centre  of  the  city,   and  facing  the  famous   Dominion  Stjuare.        It 
is  in  the  vicinity  of  Montreal's  most  interesting  portions. 


The    Windsor   Stands    Unrivalled 

IN  CANADA  AND  UNSURPASSED  IN  THE  WOULD. 

Its  cool,  airy  rooms,  its  magnificent  appointments,  its  palatial  corridors, 
parlors  and  dining  room,  and  its  perfect  cuisine,  hold  a  world-wide  reputation, 
and  it  is  recognized  as  the  only  hotel  in  the  city  of  Montreal  constructed  to 
supply  the  demands  of  pleasure  seekers, 

H.  S.  DUNNING,  Manager. 


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Quebec  &  Lake  Si.  John  Railwajfi 

THE  NEW  ROUTE  TO  THE  FAR-FAMED  SAGUENAY, 

And  the  ONLY  RAIL  LINE  tc  tlie  DeliKhtful  Suninier  Resorts  and  Fish- 
ing QroundH  north  of  Quebec,  and  to  Lake  Ht.  John  and  Ohicoiiilmi. 
through  the 

CANADIAN  ADIRONDACKS. 

Trains  connect  at  Chicoutimi  with  Saguenay  Steamers  for 

TADOUSSAC, 

CACOUNA, 

MURRAY   BAY, 

AND  QUEBEC, 

A  round  trip  unequalled  in  America,  through  matchless  Forest,  Mountain, 
Kiver  and  Lake  Scenery,  down  the  majestic  Saguenay  l)y  daylight  and  Imclc 
to  the  Fortress  City, 

TOUCHING  AT  ALL  THE  BEAUTIFUL  SEA-SIDE  RESORTS 

ou  the  Lower  St.  Lawrence,  with  their  chain  of  commodious  Hotels. 


PARLOR  AND   SLEEPING  CARS. 

MAGNIFICENT  SCENERY.  BEAUTIFUL  CLIMATE. 

Apply  to  the  Ticket  Agents  of  all  principal  cities. 


HOTEL 
ROBERVAL, 

Lake  St.  John, 
Has  flrst-class  ac- 
conjmodationH  for 
300  guests,  and  is 
run  in  connection 
with  the  Igland 
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iilche  Fishing 
Grounds. 


HOTEL  ROBERVAL,  Roberval,  Lake  St.  John,  P.  Q. 

TO  INVALIDS— The  climate  of  Lake  St.  John  and  the  intervening  country  along  the  railway  is  strongly  recom- 
mended by  physicians.  Its  soft  balmy  air,  due  to  its  being  protected  from  the  rough  winds  of  the  St.  Lawrence,  and 
to  the  proximity  of  forests  of  pine,  spruce  and  cedar,  is  very  beneficial  and  exhilarating  to  invalids.  Lake  St.  John  is 
3,53  feet  al)ove  tide  water. 

A  beautifully  illustrated  Guide  Book  free  on  application, 

ALKX.    HA-RDX",  J.   Gr.    SCOXT, 

General  Passenger  Agent,  Queliec,  P.  Q.  Secretary  and  Manager. 


GRAND  TRUNK  RAILWAY 

INCLUDING 

CHICAGO  &  GRAND  TRUNK  RAILWAY; 

DETROIT,  GRAND  HAVEN  &  MILWAUKEE  RAILWAY; 

MICHIGAN  AIR  LINE; 
TOLEDO,  SAGINAW  &  MUSKEGON  RAILWAY; 

CINCINNATI,  SAGINAW  &  MACK  AN  AW  R.  R. 
CHICAGO,  DETROIT  &  NIAGARA  PALLS  SHORT  LINE,  &c. 


THE  ONLY  FASHIONABLE  PLEASURE  ROUTE  .  .  . 

THE  GREAT  INTERNATIONAL  HIGHWAY. 


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VIA  THE  ST.  CLAIR  TUNNEL, 

Connecting  Canada  and  United  States  by  a  continuous  all  rail  line.  Between  every 
city  in  Ontario  and  Quebec,  and  all  points  across  the  American  Continent. 


({uebee,  Montreal,  Toronto,  Ottawa,  St.  Thomas,  Chatham,  London,  Hamilton.  Kingston,  Broekville, 

Peterborough,  Sarnia,  Niagara  Falls,  Portland,  Ne.,  Lewiston,  Me.,  Buffalo,  N.  ¥., 

Detroit,  Mich.,  Chicago,  III.,  Ogdensburg,  N.  Y. 

In  connection  with  the  RICHELIEU  &  ONTARIO  NAVIGATION  CO.  a  series  of  ATTRACTIVE  OPTIONAL 
TOUKsl  has  been  arranged,  allowing  use  of  rail  or  steamer  at  pleasure  of  the  passenger,  and  reaching  all  the  famous 
summer  resorts.    Take  the  Vestibuled  Limited,  from  Chicago  via  Kingston  or  Qananoque  Junction  for 

Clayton,  Alexandria  Bay,  Thousand  Islands,  Rapids  of  the  St.  Lawrence,  White. 

Green  and  Adirondack  Mountains,  Saratoga  Springs,  Old  Orchard  Beach, 

Lakes  Champlain  and  George  and  all  Sea  Coast  Resorts. 


©legant  Pallnpaip  palace  Sleeping  and  papIoF  ©ai®§ 

Are  ailached  to  all  Exprexa  T.aiDH  between  Chicago,  Detroit,  Niagara  FalU  and  Portland,  >Ie. 

An  extensive  variety  of  Tourists'  Tickets  are  placed  on  sale  during  the  SEASIDE  and  TOURIST  SEASONS, 
covering  the  most  popular  and  interesting  routes  on  the  Continent,  and  at  the  LOWEST  FARES.  Full  information 
as  to  same  can  be  obtained  at  all  the  Company's  stations  and  agencies. 

CHEAP  EXCURSIONS,  up  by  rail  and  down  by  steamer  from  Montreal  to  Kingston,  Alexandria  Bay,  Brockvillei 
Ottawa,  Prescott,  Cornwall,  Coteau.    Baggage  checked  through  to  all  Summer  Resorts. 

See  that  your  tickets  read  via  Grand  Trunk  Railway,  the  Fashionable  Pleasure 
Route,  and  take  no  other,  inferior,  circuitous  lines. 

N.  J.  I'OWEH,  li.  J.  SBARGEANT,  HBO.  T.  BELL. 

General  Pasiengcr  Agent.  General  Manager.  Asst,  Uen.  Pau.  Agent. 

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low  10  reocii  iQe  ST.  LflWiEKCE  HIVE)  lESOBTi,  vii  me  CHlciieo  i  eiHliD  TRUiiii  and  tiUD  TiDilll  MILWBTS  HOilTE.  loi  Hiexanoiia  Bag.  Round  Island,  Tnousagi  island  ram  and  ciayion: 

via  OANANOQt'K.— Leave  Chltign,  Limited  Rxpretii,  S.19  p.m,  arrive  at  Ganan(x|ue  Junction  next  day  at  J.Ot  p.m.  (except  Sunday),  connecting  at  Oananoque  Junction  with  Thounand  Ulnnd  Knilway  I'umpany  for  Gananoque,  at  which  point  direct  connections  are 

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^HE  PAVILION* 

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Islands 


Upon  entering  the  Pavilion  the  visitor  is  struck  with  wonder  at  being  transferred 

into  such  a  strange  land. 


AN  ELEGANT  EXHIBITION 

of  High  Art, 


AS 

WELL 

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A  GENERAL  PRODUCTION 

^   from  Japan, 


THE  LAND  OF  THE  RISING  SUN. 

You    are    well    acquainted    with    the    wonderful    skill    of    the    Mikado's    nation. 

Their    productions    are    all    odd    pieces,    no    two   alike.     Here    you 

will    find    displayed    articles    from   the  Highest 

Grade    to    the    General    Merchandise. 

A    tiny,    but   handsome    After-Dinner    Cup    and    Saucer,    will    be    everybody's 

^  SOUVENIR  FROM  ALEXANDRIA  BAY,  - 

As   well    as   a    large    piece    of    most    distinguished    work.     The    principle    of    the 

display    is    devoted    to    the    interest    of    the    visitors.     You    are    always 

welcome,  whether  you  purchase  or  not.     Refined  Japanese  gentlemen 

will    attend    you    politely,    and    converse    with    you    of   the    art 

and    artisans    of    their    native    land. 


Direct  from  Japanese  Manufacturers. 


H.  K.  TETSUKA&CO. 


50  Miles 


AMONG  THE 


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ROUNI)  TRIP  so  CENTS. 


3       ISLANDS  TO  BE  SEEN, 
MILES  TO  RIDE, 
PLEASURE  TO  ENJOY. 


-BY  TAKING  A  TRIP  ON  THE- 


New  -  Island  -  Wanderer, 

BUILT  EXPRB:SSLY  for  this  KOUTE,  than  can  be  had  on  any  OTHER  BOAT  ON  THE  RIVER. 

THE  ONLY  STEAMER  MAKING  THE  FULL  FIFTY  MILE  TRIP. 

Don't  jyiiss  this  Trip.  -  -  Fare  Fifty  Cents, . 

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IS  THE  FASHIONABLE  AND  SCENIC  ROUTE  FOR 

T©«i&T '  Mb  '  FLE/^SMiE  '  Ti^WEL 

1000 ISLAIS,  MOmEAL,  BOSTON,  IW  YORK 

AND  ALL  SUMMER  RESORTS  IN  NEW  ENGLAND  AND  CANADA,   INCLUDING  THE 

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Bar  Harbor,  Me.; 


MOUNTAINS 


Adirondack  IVIUU  1\  1  lilllU    Block  island  &Newport,R.I. 

DOUBLE  ?  DAILY  ?  FAST  ?  EXPRESS  ?  TRAIN  ?  SERVICE, 

WITH  PULLMAN  AND  WAGNER  PALACE  BUFFET  PARLOR  AND  SLEEPING  CARS 


BETWEEN 


riontreal  and  Boston,    New  York,    the  White   Mountains, 
Norwood,  N.  Y.,  and  Portland,  fie 


Through  the  White  Mountains  by  Daylight. 


Advantages  only  offered  by  this  popular  and 
01(1  Established  Route  through  the 


SwiTZERLflMD    OF    flflERlM. 


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A.  C.  STONEQRAVE,  Canadian  Passenger  Agent,  136  St  Jam^^s  St.,  Montreal,  Que. 
E.  C.  SMITH,  St.  Albans,  Vt.,  S.  W.  CUMMINQS, 

President.  Gen'l  Passenger  Agent. 


@  TtiiE  mnnS^ 


OF  THE  .  .  . 


CHOICE  OF  TWO  ROUTES 


VB  MISSOURI  PACIFIC  RAILWAY, 

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STUBBORN   FACTS   FOR   THE   CONSIDERATION  OF 
ST.  LAWRENCE  RIVER  PASSENGERS. 

THK  piiblio  Im  rt>H|>«>ctrull)r  infonni'il  tlmt  by  takiiiK  tliit  Rniiif,  Watertown  <.%  OilK<>nMhurK  Htillroail  to  Clayton  <'to 
which  |H>liitH  Mollil  traiiiKarc  run  from  NluKsra  KuIIh, HuH|)«nNioti  BriilKc,  HiilTitlo,  ItoohcMlcr.  Charlntlu,  omwcko, 
SyracuHti  iiml  rtica),  rroin  four  to  tw<<lvtt  hoiirH  In  time,  and  from  tt>n  to  fifty  mllfHhi  iliMtuiu'c,  may  )m*  wivimI 
CM  rou/i' to  St.  I.awrencH  Rivor  polntR.  nnil  Ciinurlii.  1'liem>  wijid  traiiiH  carry  t>lt>Kiwit  veHtilmletl  coacheM  anil 
WaKner  veHtll>uli'<l  biifft^t  ilrawinx  room  curM,  uImo  veNtibiiliMl  HmokbiK  ourNonilay  traluH  ami  veMtibiilt>d  hlefpUiK 
carM  on  nlxbt  trainn.  They  run  direct  to  MttmmlHiat  dock  at  Clayton,  and  maki*  imnwdiati*  cmiiicctionH  with  |>alac« 
Hteamer  "St.  I.ttwrBnfe,""-th"  (inn-n  of  tlw  llt'et of  n««vfnMt«'amboatH running'  In  I'onut'ctlon  with  tln>  Homi<,  Wiiti-rtown 
&  OKdenHburK  Kaili'ond,  and  tlie  larjfest,  HwiftoMt,  ooHtlli-Ht  iitul  th^^moMt  i'oinfortablt>boat  on  thcSt.  Law nintv  River — 
for  Round  Inland,  ThouHand  iHland  I'ark,  Alexandria  Ray,  WcHtmitiHter  I'ark,  and  all  n-HortN  amonK  the  ThnUHand 
IxlandH.  The  "St.  I.awrencc"  is  now  e<|ui|)|M>d  with  a  new  and  powerful  electric  Heiirch  ilK'ht.  which  di)t|>elH  the 
darkneHH  of  niKht,  makiiiK  It  clear  and  bright  aH  noonday.  Klectric  lik'lit  excuiHions  have  Ix'en  arranged  for  every 
nl^bt  durinK  the  Hummer.  KirHt-claHHmeulrtarefurnlithedon  tlietiU'umer  ut  price  of  .'lO  centH  each.  Connection  Im  alHo 
made  at  MteamlKtat  dock  at  Clayton,  without  transfer,  with  |k>w<  rful  Hteamera  of  the  Richelieu  &  Ontario  Navi^ration 
ComiMiny  (Royal  Mall  I^lne  Bteamers)  for  Montreal,  (Quebec,  the  River  Ha^'uenay  and  lower  St.  Lawrence,  paHsliiK  M 
the  ThouMand  iHlandH  and  KapIdH  of  the  River  St.  I^awrence  by  daylight.  We  wish  to  emphoMlxe  the  fact  that  the 
Hteand)oatH  running  in  .'onnectlon  with  the  Rome,  Watertown  &  OKdensbiirK  lOiilroad  are  staunch,  safe  boatH,  built 
expresHly  for,  and  adapted  to,  the  waters  they  navijfttte  ;  tlmt  they  ure  not  old  boats  remodeled,  nor  boats  brought 
fi'om  <;alm  and  smooth  river  waters,  and  therefore  unlit  for  navigation  on  such  a  lar^e  body  of  water  ua  Lake  Ontario, 
liable  to  sudden  and  violent  storms. 

By  taking  the  Rome,  Watertown  &  OKdensburi;  Railroad  to  Clayton,  the  traveler  avoids  the  unpleasant  ami 
monotonous  trip  over  Lake  Ontario,  with  its  Inevitable  "inal  de  iner"  when  the  lake  is  rouRh,  and  also  the  llaltllity  to 
delays  and  detentions  when  the  loko  steamers  haul  off  from  tlu  ir  re>?ular  trips  and  refuse  tn  leave  their  moorinxs  at 
Charlotte  or  Oswego,  on  account  of  scpialls  on  the  lake  or  tempestuous  wt^ather.  The  fast  trains  of  the  Rome, 
Watertown  &  OgdensburK  Railroad  run  every  day,  tmhindercd  by  mjuuIIs  or  stormy  weather,  and  paswnKcrs  are 
always  certam  of  makinK  connections.  These  trains  run  to  Clayton  expressly  to  avoid  the  lake  trip,  and  to  enable 
tourists  and  pleasure-seekers  to  enjoy  amonjr  the  Thousand  Islands,  the  loveliest  river  resort  In  the  world,  the  time 
thus  K^ined,  and  which  otherwise  would  be  consumed  in  an  luicertaiii  and  nninterestinK  lake  passage. 

The  track  has  been  relald  with  steel  rails,  the  road-bed  newly  ballasted  with  gravel  and  stone,  and  the  train  service 
has  been  augmented  and  improved  by  the  introduction  of  new.  heavy  and  powerful  locomotives,  especially  designed 
to  haul  heavy  passenger  trains  at  a  high  rate  of  speed. 

In  former  years,  before  the  construction  of  through  rail  lines  to  the  River  St.  Lawrence,  this  business  was 
compellid  to  go  via  lake  ports;  but  the  Rome,  Watertown  &  Ogdensburg  Railroad,  reolizing  the  great  dissatisfaction 
occasioned  by  people  being  obliged  to  take  the  lake  route,  extended  its  rail  line  to  Clayton,  and  established  there  the 
central  point  of  the  St.  Lawrence  River  Steamboat  System.  Clayton  at  once  became  the  great  objective  point  for  all 
travel  destined  to  the  St.  Lawrence  River,  and  the  perfect  train  service,  with  its  steamboat  connections,  maintained  by 
the  Rome,  Watertown  &  Ogdensburg  Railroad,  meets  the  exacting  re<iulrement8  of  ell  classes  of  travel. 

St.  1  Awrence  River  and  Thousand  Island  Pa-ssengers  will  find  it  to  their  Interest  and  comfort  to  take  the  Rome, 
Watertown  &  Ogdensburg  Railroad,  at  Niagaro  Falls,  Suspension  Bridge,  Buffalo,  Rochester,  Charlotte,  Syracuse, 
Oswego,  or  Utica. 

For  time  tables  and  Infonuatlon  appiy  to  ony  ticket  agent  of  N.  Y.  C.  &  H.  R.  R.  R.,  R.,  W.  &  O.  R.  R.,  or 
connecting  lines,  or  correspond  with 

THEO      BUTTERFIELD,  Gen'l  Pass.  Agt.,  Syracuse,  N.  Y. 


p,z°':tIZ\.uz''  grand  trunk  railway 


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ST.  CLAIR  8UB-MflRlNE  TUNNEL  -" 

CANADA  AND  THE  UNITED  STATES 

BY  A  CONTINUOUS  ALL-RAIL  LINE, 

From  the  East  to  the  West,  via  St.  Clair  Tunnel  and  Chicago, 

the  World's  Fair  City. 


•  HE  ST.  CLAIR  TUNNEL  has  been  constructed  under  the  river  of  that  name,  at  the  foot  of 
Lake  Huron,  for  tlio  purpose  of  superseding  the  ferry  boats  whicli  have  liitherto  conveyed  the 
trains  of  the  Grand  Trunk  Route  across  tiiat  river.  It  will  afford  immense  advantages  to 
passengers,  and  for  freiglit  trailic,  in  avoiding  the  inconvenience  of  a  ferry — in  saving  two 
hoirrs  of  time — and  in  siiortening  the  distaice  by  about  six  miles.  The  actual  tunnel  itself  under  the 
river  is  6,026  feet  long.  It  is  lined  throughout  with  solid  cast  iron  plates,  bolted  together  in  segments, 
each  segment  being  five  feet  long,  eighteen  inches  wide,  and  two  inches  thick,  with  flanges  five  inches 
deep;  the  whole  lining  weighing  together  28.000  tons.  The  bolts  and  nuts  for  connecting  the 
segments  together  weigh  2,000,000  pounds.  The  permanent  vay  tiirough  the  tunnel  is  laid  with  steel 
rails,  weighing  one  hundred  pounds  to  the  lineal  yard.  The  interior  diameter  of  the  tuimel  is  twenty 
feet,  and  ample  means  have  been  piovided  for  thorough  ventihition,  and  for  lighting  it  throughout, 
when  required,  by  the  electric  light.  1  he  road  is  practically  level  under  the  river,  with  approaciies  at 
each  end  on  gradients  of  1  in  50.  The  total  length  of  the  tunnel  and  approaches  is  11,553  feet.  At 
the  ends  of  the  approaciies  are  junctions  with  the  Grand  Trunk  Railway  on  the  Canadian  side,  and 
the  Chicago  and  Grand  Trunk  Railway  on  the  American  side  of  the  river.  In  connection  with  these 
junctions  ample  ground  has  been  levelled  and  prepared,  and  shunting  sidings  to  the  extent  of  ten 
miles  have  already  been  laid  on  each  side  of  the  river. 

The  tunnel  was  constructeil  by  means  of  heavy  wrought  iron  shields,  with  sharp  edges,  fifteen 
feet  three  inches  long,  and  twenty-one  feet  si.\  inches  in  diameter.  Each  slueld  was  pushed  forward 
by  24  hydraulic  rams,  the  barrel  of  each  ram  being  eight  inches  in  diameter,  with  a  stroke  of  a  little 
more  than  eighteen  inches.     Each  ram  exercised  a  force  of  125  tons. 

It  is  believed  that  the  route  as  thus  improved  will  offer  facilities  for  through  communication 
between  Chicago  and  all  points  in  the  East,  wliicli  will  be  appreciated  by  passengers  and  shippers. 
There  will  be  no  more  trouble  from  the  ice  blocks  or  other  obstructions  in  the  river,  and  the  best  time 
will  be  made  for  traffic  of  ad  descriptions. 

From  the  date  when  the  shields  were  first  lowered  in  position  at  the  portals  to  the  meeting  of  the 
shields  in  the  tunnel,  the  time  occupied  in  constructing  the  tunnel  was  twelve  months.  The  cost  of 
the  tunnel  is  in  the  neighborhood  of  $2,700,000. 


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-  EXCURSION  TRIPS  ON  THE  PALACE  STEAMERS  - 


_OF    THE. 


THOUSAND  ISLAND  STEAMBOAT  COMPANY. 


No  one  has  thoroughly  seen  or  enjoyed  the  THOUSAND  ISLANDS  until 

"he  has  taken 

FIRST.  The  popular  Steamer  "St.  Lawrence's"  famous  "Electric  Search- 
Light  Excursion." 

SECOND.  The  "Islander's"  exciting  ''Island  Ramble,"  giving  an  actual  view 
of  over  1,300  Islands,  and  the  only  Steamer  passing  through  the  "  Lost 
Channel,"  against  the  current. 

THIRD.  The  New  Mammoth  Steamer  "Empire  State's"  beautiful  and  interest- 
ing "Trip  to  Canada,"  to  the  Historical  City  of  Kingston. 

N.  B.     Send  2  cent  stamp  for  lUu.strivted  Catalogue. 

....    CONSULT    LOCAL    TIME-TABLES    .... 


HOWARD  S.  FOL6ER, 

General  Manager. 


B.  W.  FOLGER,  JR., 

General  Passenger  Agent. 


CH/ITMUq^T  Q11<15n^ 


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Thin  WONDKRrrL  FRKAK  OF  KATIIRE,  equal  to  Au  Sable  and  Watklns  Glen,  has  been  recently  made  accessible  to 
th3  public.  Parties  wisliing  to  visit  the  Chasm  can  leave  Ogdensburg  in  the  niornint?.  Iiavint?  most  of  the  time  at  the 
Chasm,  rfcturninj?  the  same  afternoon.    A  good  hotel  lias  been  erected  for  the  accouimodution  of  excursion  parties. 

ROUND  TRIl'  TICKKTS  can  be  had  at  REDUCED  RATES  for  Chateaugay  Chasm  and  Ralph's  Upper  Chateaugay 
Lake,  upon  application  at  the  Ticket  Offlce,  Ogdensburg. 


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Platform   and    Couplers,    Steel    Rails    and    Solid    Roadbed,  and  every 

appliance  for  the  safety  and  comfort  of  Passengers. 


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HUDSON  RIVER  BY  DAYLIGHT 

The  Most  Charming  Inland  Water  Trip  on  the  American  Continent. 


THE    PALACE    IRON   STEAMERS 

"NEW  YORK"  and  "ALBANY," 


-OF    THE- 


HUDSON   RIVER  DAY  LINE, 

LEAVE  NEW  YORK  DAILY,  (except  Sundays),  Desbrosses  Street  pier,  8:40  a.m  ; 
22d  Street  pier,  9:00  a.  m.  ;  arriving  at  Albany,  6:10  p.  m. 

LEAVE   ALBANY,  foot  of  Hamilton  Street,   8:30  a.  m.,  arriving   at    New    York, 
22d  Street  pier,  5:30  p.  m.  ;  Desbrosses  Street  pier,  6  v.  m. 

ATRIP  on  one  of  these  famous  steninera,  on  the  noblest  stream  in  the  country,  offers  rare  attractions.  They  are 
fitted  up  in  the  most  elegant  style,  exclu.sively  for  pas.senKer8.  Thi'lr  great  spei-d.  (iue  orc'iestra,  spaoious  aa- 
loono,  private  parlors  ami  luxurious  accommodations  in  every  respect  render  tlieni  unexcelled.  Handsomely  ap- 
pointed dimng-rooms,  uii  h  superior  service,  are  on  main  decl£,  affording  an  uuinterr\ipted  view  of  tlie  magnificent 
scenery  t>jr  which  the  Hudson  is  noted. 


THROUGH   AND   EXCURSION   TICKETS   SOLD  TO 

ALEXANDRIA    BAY,    N.  Y. 

Send   Six  Cents   for  Copy   of  "Summer  Excursion  Book." 


P.  B.  HIBBAHD,  General  Passenger  Agent, 

Desbro-ses  St.  Pier,  New  York. 


C.  T.  VAN  SANTVOORD, 

General  Manager. 


CORNWALL  BROS. 


ALEXANDRIA  BAY,  Jefferson  Co.,  N.  Y. 


GENERU  TICKET  AGENTS 


TICKETS    FOR  Quebec,   Ha- Ma  Bay,   Gulf 

I'orts,     Halifax,  Portland,     Boston,     White 

Mountains,    I.ake  Chaniplain,    Lake   (leorge,    Saratoga,  New    York,  and  all   Points 

East  and  W^est  sold  at 


8ecuro  your  Tickets  before  tiikinj^  the  Steiiiiiers    iiud   save    (he   diirereufo    between  LOCAL  iin-^ 
KXCUU810N  Riites.     HagKiige  Checked  to  hU  Points. 


ALSO    DEALERS    IN 


DOMESTIC  #  FANCY  DRY  GOODS.  NOTIONS,  CARPETS. 

Hats,  Caps,  Clothing,  Boots  and  .  hoes,  Groceries, 

Fishing  Tackle,    Hardware,    Crockery,    Paints,    Oils,  Etc. 


They  pay  CASH   for  all   their   purchases,   thereby   getting   the   benefits  of  all 
discounts,  which  enables  them  to  sell  goods  CHEAP.    They  have  also  a 

CUSTOM  TAILOIRNG  DEPARTMENT, 

In  charg^e  of  one  of  the  Best  and  most  Experienced  Cutters  in  the  country. 


CAMP  AND   ISLAND  SUPPLIES  AND  FANCY  GROCERIES 

THEY    MAKE    A    SPECIALrv. 

They  employ  experienced  and  courteous  salesmen,  who  do  not  consider  it  any  trouble  to  show  goods. 
ALL  ARE  CORDIALLY  INVITED  TO  CALL  AND  SEE  THEBI. 


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TREHTOH    FALLS    AMD    MOORE'S    HOTEL 

TRENTON   FALLS, 

Situated  on  the  line  of  the  U.  <tt  B.  R.  R.  RR.,   18  miles  from  Utica  and  102  miles  from  Alexandria  Bay,  is  one  of  the 

AloHt  Delifthiriil  ol  Nuiiiiiier  RpNorta.    The  romantic  beauty  of  the  place,  with  its  rock-bound  and 

tree-embowered  stream,  its  rushing  and  picturesque  falls,  Its  retired  and  shady  walks, 

is  unsurpassed.    Besides,  the  air  and  water  there  are  the  purest.    It  is 

reached  liy.a  few  minutes'  ride  from  Utica  on  the  cars,  and 

it  has  a  Hotel   ol  IVATIO:\'AIi  REPVTATIUIV. 


ZWXOOXqLS:'^    ZZOT'ZSXj. 

Is  a  very  spacious  three  story  building,  with  long  and  wide  piazzns,  attractive  rooms,  and  a  most  genial  and 

accomplished  host.    The  Hotel  has  a  front  of  136  reet,  piazza  is  12  feet  wide,  a  dining  room  CO  by  30  feet, 

large  and  well-ventilated  Suites  of  rooms,  a  table  supplied  with  all  the  dainties  of  the 

season,  served  in  the  best  style— in  fact  all  the  LUXURIES  of  a 

jfirst^Class  MatecinG  flMace  Ibotel 


MR.  MOORE  has  been  to  great  trouble  and  expense  in  building  stairways,  laying  out  the  beaiitif  ul  grounds,  and 
making  arrangements  for  perfect    ecurity  in  visiting  the  wild  falls  and  chasms  of  the  stream.    His  hotel  is  also 

^n  ^rt  Gallery  of  Great  Interest. 

Tourists  and  Pleasure  Seekers  Should  Not  Overlook  This  Charming  Summer  Resort. 


'  Passengers  en  route  to  or  from  Alexandria  Bay  via  Utica  &  Black  River  RR.  have  the  privilege  of  stopping 
oflf  at  Trenton  Falls,  and  resuming  the  trip  at  their  pleasure. 


Ol'EUATlNO    MAGNIFICENT   SIDE   WHEEL    6TEAMEKS 

"State  of  New  York" 


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State  of  Ohio, 


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-FORMING    A- 


DAILY  LIM  between  BUFFALO  and  CLEVELAND 

Commencing  with  Opening  of  Navigation,  about  April  1st. 


DAILY  TIME  TABLE— Sunday  Included. 


Leave  Buffalo 
Arrive  Cleveland 


7:30  P.   M. 
8:30  A.   M. 


Leave  Cleveland 
Arrive  Buffalo 


7:00  P.  M. 
.        8:30  A.  M. 


EASTERN  STANDARD  TIME. 


Take  the  ••  C.  &  B.  Line  "  Steamer.-,  and  enjoy  a  refreshing  night's  rest  when  en  route  to 
Cleveland,  Columbu8«  Cincinnati,  Toledo,  Indianapolis,  Chicago,  Detroit,  Mackinac 
Island,  Northern  Lake  Tourist  resorts,  or  any  Ohio,  Indiana,  or  southwestern  point. 


Send  4  cents  postage  for  Tourist  Pamphlet. 


W.  F.  HERMAN,  Gen'l  Pass.  Agt.,  T.   P.  NEWMAN,  Gen'l  Manager, 

CLEVELAND,  O. 


ASK   QUESTIONS. 


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best  and  that  no  others  are  worth  considering,  ask  questions.  \Af  H  ■    ■ 

As  a  matter  of  fact  most  pianos  are  good.  The  makers  would  be  foolish 
to  do  other  than  their  best.  The  differences  between  them  are  small,  But 
Small  Things  Are  Very  Important. 

It  is  by  excelling  in  many  little  things  that  the  WESER  PIAMO  is  lifted  above 
the  common  mediocrity  of  pianodom.  Maybe  it's  the  greater  elasticity  of  the 
hammers,  our  new  duet  desk,  or  our  practice  pedal — both  patented — which 
altogether  make  so  many  artists   persist  in  having  the  Weser  Piano. 

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SPECIAL  TRAINS  run  through  without  change  between  New  York  and 
•Clayton  by  this  Line,  Every  Morning  and  Evening,  connecting  directly  at 
Clayton  with  Steamers  to  and  from  Alexandria  Bay  and  all  Thousand  Island  Resorts; 
also  with  Richelieu  &  Ontario  Navigation  Company's  Steamers  for  Montreal, 
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York  Central  Lines.  All  through  trains  stopping 
at  Remsen  for  Direct  connection,  placing  these 
two  great  resorts  within  easy  access  one  of  another. 

A  copy  of  the  Illustrated  Catalogue  of  the 
"  FOUR-TRACK-SERIES  "  —  New  York  Central 
Books  and  Etchings,  will  be  mailed  free,  postpaid, 
to  any  address    in    the    world    on    receipt  of  two 

2-cent  stamps,   by .  . 

>GEORGIE  H.  DANIELS,  Gen'l  Passeni^er  A.gt.,  Orand  Central  Station,  New  York. 


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with  powerful  Bteamers  of  Kichelicu  k  Ontario  Navigation  Co.  for  Alexandria  Bay 
and  running  all  the  Rapids  of  the  River  St.  Lawrence  by  daylight,  the  most  attrao 

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connections  at  Norwood  for  Massena  Springs  ;  at  Moira  for  Paul  Smith's  and  Adif 
tuid  famous  Crawford  Notch  to  Portland,  with  immediata  connections  for  Bar  H« 
train  stops  at  all  principal  resoris  in  the  White  Mountains. 

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Llnxandria  Bay,  Montreal,  Quebec  and  the  Birer  Saguenay,  paasing  all  the  Thouaand  lulanda 
;he  moat  attractive  trip  in  the  world. 

lly  except  .Saturday  at  8.10  p.  m.  with  through  Sleeping  Cars  Niagara  Falls  to  Portland,  making 
Qith'a  and  Adirondack  resorts,  and  running  througn  the  heart  of  the  Mountains  via  Fabyan's 
ons  for  Bar  Harbor,  Old  Orchard,  Eennebunkport  and  all  Sea  Coast  reaorta  of  Maine.    This 

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1.  Carlton  Island 

2.  Gtovernor'B  Island Ex-Lieut.-Gov,  T.  G.  AJvord. 

8.  Calumet  Island Mr.  Ohas.  G.  Emery,  New  York. 

4.  Bock  Island  Light-Hooee,  head  of  American  Channel. 

r    J  Occident  and  Orient E.  R.  Washburn,  New  York. 

°*  J  iBlo  of  Pines Mrs.  E.  N.  Robinson,  New  York. 

6.  Frederick  Island C.  L.  Fredericks,  Carthage,  N.Y. 

7.  WellBley  Hooae. 

(  Rev.  Ooodrich,  Lafargevllle,  N.  Y. 
«    Wavinir  Br&nchps  2  Arthur  Hughes,  Btone  Mills,  N.  Y. 

5.  waring  Branches  <  pje^erick  Smith,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

(  L.  8.  Ainsworth,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

C  Prof.  A.  H.  Brown,  Carthage,  N.  Y. 
,    J  N   D.  Ferguson.  *'  " 

'•■^  John  Norton,  "  " 

(  Hon.  W.  W.  Bntterfleld,  Redwood,  N.  Y. 


9.  Jolly  Oaks. 


Names  of  Points  Indicated  by  Figures  In  Red. 

10.  Island  Royal Royal  E.  Deane,  New  York. 

11.  Seven  Isles Bradley  Winslow,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

11.  Point  Vivian;   Resot  Tozer,   J.  J.  Kinney,  Or.  Jones, 

Geo.  Jones,  William  Cooper,  and  others.  Stone  Mills, 
New  York. 
18.  Bella  Vista  Lodge P.  J.  Bosworth,  Newport,  R.  I. 

14.  Comfort  Island A.  B.  Clark,  Chicago. 

15.  Warner  Island H.  H.  Warner,  Rochester,  N.  i. 

m    n>,.>..nr  T.ia.,.1  J  A.  B.  Pallman,  Chicago. 

16.  Cherry  Island. -jG.B.  Marsh,         " 

17.  WauWinet C.  B.  Hill,  Chicago. 

18.  Nobby  Island. H.  R.  Heath,  New  York. 

1».  Welcome  Island S.  Q.  Pope,  Ogdensburg. 

20.  Linlithgow  Island R.  A.  Livingston,  New  York. 

21 .  Bonnie  Castle Holland  Estate. 

22.  Isle  Imperial Mrs.  H.  G.  Le  Conte,  Philadelphia. 

23.  Point  Marguerite 8>  Anthony,  New  York. 

24.  Sport  Island Acker  Bstatft. 

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87.  Manhattan  Group. 


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Montreal,  Quebec  and  the  Hirer  Hagunuay,  puaRlug  all  the  TliuUMnd  I^Unda 
ire  trip  in  the  world. 

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ondack  reaorto,  and  running  through  thu  heart  of  the  Mountaina  via  Fabyan'a 
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1.  Carlton  Island 

8.  Governor's  Island Ex-Lient.-Goy .  T.  O.  AJvord. 

8.  Calumet  Island Mr.  Chas.  G.  Emery,  New  York, 

4.  Kock  iHland  LiRht-Uotue,  head  of  American  Channel. 

,     J  Occident  and  Orient E.  R.  Washburn,  New  York. 

"•  jlBleof  Pines Mrs.  E.  N.  Ilobinson,  New  York. 

e.  Frederick  Island C.  L.  Fredericks,  Carthage,  N.T. 

7.  Wellsley  Houm. 

{  Rev.  Goodrich,  Lafarf^ville,  N.  Y, 
Arthnr  Hughes,  btone  Mills,  N.  T. 
Frederick  Smith,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 


!).  Waring  Branches 

i,  L.  8.  Alusworth.  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

I  Prof.  A.  H.  Brown,  Carthage,  N.  Y. 
I.    T«n-  rk.t.    )  N   D.  Ferguson,  "  " 

"•  Jo"y  O"^-  \  John  Norton, 

(  Hon.  W.  W.  Bntterfleld,  Redwood,  N.  Y. 


^  32  Mil** 


Names  of  Points  indicated  by  Figures  in  Red. 

10.  Island  Royal Royal  E.  Deane,  New  York. 

11.  Seven  leles Bradley  Wlnalow,  Watertown,  N.  Y. 

11.  Point  Vivian;   Reaot  Tozer,   J.  J.  Kinney,  Dr.  Jonea, 

Geo.  Jones,  William  Cooper,  and  others,  Stone  Mills, 

New  York. 

18.  Bella  Vista  Lodge F.  J.  Boaworth,  Newport,  R.  I. 

14.  Comfort  Island A.  E.  Clark,  Chicago. 

16.  Warner  Island H.  H.  Warner,  Rochester,  N.  Y. 

16.  Cherry  Island. j  ^:  I.  teST' ''''•• '^- 

17.  Wan  Wlnet C.  B.  Hill,  Chicago. 

18.  Nobby  Island H.  B.  Heath,  New  York. 

19.  Welcome  Island 8.  G.  Pope,  Ogdensbnrg. 

i90.  Linlithgow  Island R.  A.  Livingston,  New  York. 

21.  Bonnie  Caatle Holland  Estate. 

22.  Isle  Imperial Mrs.  H.  O.  Le  Conte,  Fblladeluhia. 

23.  Point  Marsnerlte S- Anthony,  New  York. 

24.  Sport  Island lacker  Estate. 

^1    [  Sommerland    Gronp. 
87.  Manhattan  Group. 


PEOPLE'S 


EVENING  LINE 

STEAMERS 


DREW  AND  DEAN   RICHMOND. 

Capt.  a  J.  ROE.  Capt  J.  H.  MANVILLE. 


LIGHTED  THROUGHOUT  ifl  ELECTRICITY 


Leave  ALBANY  for  NEW  YORK  Every  Week  Day  at  8  P.  M.,  or  on  arrival 
of  Trains  from  the  North,  East  and  West. 


Tickets  sold  at  Stations  of  the  Rome,  Watertown  «Sc  Odgens- 

bnrg  RR.,   N.  Y.  C.  &  H.  R.  RR.,  West   Shore   RR,  and 

Connecting  Lines  via  the  People's  Line  Steamers,  for 

all    Points    South.     Baggage    Checked    Through. 


Leave  NEWYORK  for  UBINY 


Every    \Veek  Day  from  Pier   41,  North 
River,  foot  of  Canal  Street,  at  6  P.  H., 

arriving  at  Albany  next  morning,  connecting  with  trains  of  the  New  York  Central 
RR.,  Rome,  Watertown  &  Ogdensburg  RR.,  for  the  West  and  Thousand  Islands, 
I).  &  H.  C.  Co.'s  roads  for  Saratoga,  Lake  George,  Lake  Champlain  and  Adiron- 
dacks;  also,  Howe's  Cave,  Sharon  Springs  and  Cooperstown. 


J.  H.  ALLAIRE,  M.  B.  WATERS, 

Qen'l  Ticket  Agent,  New  York.  Gen'l  Passenger  Agent,  Albany. 


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